A Soldier's Story

A thick blanket of snow covered the badlands. It was to be expected during the winter months. Queen Chrysalis sighed as she looked over the balcony of her palace. She could see her loyal subjects, cold and starving, down below. Her infiltration had failed, she had failed, but she wasn't going to give up. She had devised a new plan. A sly smile crossed her face as she rubbed her midsection.

"Too long have we suffered in silence" Chrysalis shouted down to her subjects instantly gaining their attention. "Celestia sits upon the throne, while we are forced to live amongst the rocks killing each other to feed off anothers love." A few changelings begin to look away having heard this same speech time and time again. "But soon I promise our time shall come, and when it does we will take the love from Equestria and our families will no longer go hungry!" A few weak Hooray's could be heard from below.

The changeling queen looked back at her room, it was a mess, the cobbled stone walls were falling apart and her bed, if she could call it that, was the only thing in the room. She trotted over to her bed running her hooves over the ragged sheets. Happy memories filled her mind and she began to smile again, but it wasn't long before pain shot along her spine disrupting any good feelings.

"Not long now, and my child shall be born" she said through clenched teeth "My one chance to save our dying race, a queen only gets one child in her lifetime, and she will lead us out of the dark." Another wave of pain shot through the queens torso and she laid over rolling onto her bed. "The pain of waiting is unbearable though."

A knock was heard at her door and as she opened it one of her personal guard stood before her. A quick look and queen Chrysalis could tell something had this changeling shook. His hooves shook, his eyes darted up and down, and he struggled to keep his pole-arm steady.

"Y-Your majesty a v-visitor is here to see you." he stammered before collapsing to the floor. A cloaked pony dropped from the ceiling, his face shrouded in darkness. As he raised himself up the cloak fell around the pony covering him fully, keeping Chrysalis from seeing any distinguishable features.

"You really should hire better guards." his voice came calm and quickly. "That was far too easy for changelings charged with guarding a pregnant queen." Chrysalis was taken aback, how could this pony know, she hadn't told a soul aside from her guard. "No one else knows" he continued reveling in her shock "and they wont, so long as you cooperate with me."

Chrysalis was appalled, who was this pony and how dare he blackmail her. "Who do you think you are!" she snarled at him "and what makes you think I'll cooperate!"

"Fine don't listen, but your time is running out,and it'd be a shame if the princess of the sun heard about your location" he said in a mocking tone.

Chrysalis looked down, she couldn't argue with that, if Celestia found them it would mean extinction, but what was this about almost out of time? "W-What do you need me to do?" She decided to play along for now to keep his suspicions down, at least long enough for her to figure him out.

"It's simple your child shall be a test subject, or you all fall" his calm quick voice returning

Chrysalis stammered, was no secret safe from this pony. "I-is that it?" she said in slight disbelief.

He chuckled slightly. "That is more than enough considering you are out of time right now." Chrysalis looked at him for a second before pain coursed through her body causing her to blackout.