Illuminating Aegis: Tales of the Changeling King

Surprisingly enough... ponies turned out to be very hedonistic in a way. With such a large gender difference between male and female ponies, three mares to every stallion born, many mares found themselves to be quite overjoyed with the thought of playing out their wildest fantasies.

Namiro was unamused.

The changeling king had made sure to put as much space, winding corridors and solid stone between the residential area and the business area of the hive. Some ponies had some really weird fetishes...

Namiro sighed as he sat on the stone chair that had been set at the front of the temple, drones were working quickly to carve out recesses for holocrons to be held when he finally had the funds to make more. His datapad held relatively easy-to-understand plans for how to build the holocrons as well as most of the curriculum of the Jedi Order. After Twilight's third attempt at nearly borrowing the datapad permanently he made sure to add several layers of security to the datapad itself, such as a handprint scanner as well as a five digit number lock.

She stopped trying to break the security when he threatened to completely erase the data in the pad.

Things were looking up though, the hive was full of love, Namiro was currently cuddling his queen while stroking her swollen stomach as he mentally counted how many more eggs were going to be laid. They had already planned that this clutch would be infiltrator-caste changelings so that they could have more changelings working within the business area.

"It's still weird to be living in a polygamous society you know..." The changeling king said as Patina let her hand gently stroke his Mohawk-like crest.

"We'll get that weird feeling to vanish soon enough... Has Twilight shown some interest in my invitation yet?" Patina cooed as she hugged her mate closer.

Namiro rolled his eyes. "You already know she's still shy about that..."

"I know, but I think she'll come around eventually."

"I don't want to rush her into it..."

"Rush? She's a Twenty-one year old pony who is still a virgin and scared of sex!" Patina exclaimed. "With how many books she reads daily I wouldn't be surprised to know that she already has found out the propaganda clips they showed to her while she was still learning in Canterlot were nothing but a showcase of what could happen if you're not careful."

Namiro let out a sigh as he let his fingers run along the molded plate that covered Patina's chest. "She's got a lot on her mind... Nick has the griffons arming themselves in armor and weaponry advances that far outpace what Equestria has for their military, the guard platoons assigned to the princesses are as ineffectual as the local law enforcement and from what I heard, Celestia must have been high on something when she asked her civilian student to take her civilian friends to the lair of a dragon and politely ask it to leave."

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Luna gave her sister yet another small glare as Celestia twitched her ears. "What? Somepony talking about you?"

"Isn't that usually what happens when your ears ring? or was that burning...?"

"I still think you're an idiot sometimes." Luna pouted, causing the alabaster mare to sigh.

"What is it this time?"

"What is it this time? What is it this time?" Luna's voice began to get a bit louder, several of the castle staff wisely fled the room. "You have been sending those girls on suicide missions! You and I are trained warriors, well... I'm not so sure about you since all you do here is sit on your ass and listen to nobles demanding to have an entire district of houses demolished so that they can have enough room for their private pool... But a thousand years ago we commanded respect, our nobles were warriors alongside us, not spoiled children demanding more allowance to sit around and do nothing!" Luna vented. "And let's not forget about your own student... a barely drinking-age mare who you made sure not to give any sort of combat training to that you sent with her five non-military friends to evict a damn dragon!"

"That wasn't my fault!" Celestia replied with a huff.

"Oh no!?" The dark alicorn replied with an air of disbelief as she cleared her throat to mock her sister. "...I have a really funny idea sister, lets send a letter to the student that is so obsessed with appearing perfect in my eyes that she caused a riot in Ponyville over a stuffed doll that you are still seeing dreams of just because she thought you might send her back to magical kindergarten over missing a single friendship letter and ask her to get rid of the dragon. I'll even tell her I have a garrison of guards on standby. She'll send a really funny response, let's say that Fluttershy is the most crucial part of the plan!" Celestia wilted a little under the abnormally heated look her sister was giving her. "Yes... It was oh so funny to receive Twilight's response, because she couldn't possibly know that you hadn't been serious about having a librarian, farmer, veterinarian, tailor, baker and weather pony do the job that the local police or OUR MILITARY should have done."

The entire room was quiet as Luna took her seat. "Face it Celestia... Our country has grown weak and complacent in my absence. This... King Nikolaus... is showing us that the time for peace as it stands now is over, few noble families... the Sparkle family included... only have lightfoils as eldest child heirlooms. Our most advanced weapon is a spear... a metal and wood spear... Need I remind you that Griffonia is being armed with plasma sabers and plasma beam rifles?"

Celestia let out a sigh. "No... perhaps now is the time to see if Twilight truly is Force Sensitive." The white mare leaned back in her seat as she cast her gaze out the window of the lavish dining hall, seeing the quaint little town of Ponyville perfectly from where she sat. "She has a lot of potential and raw power... perhaps she may surpass us and ascend as we had Sister."

"If she does, we can only hope that if she does ascend, that her friends shall ascend with her..."

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"What did the police do when that dragon-thing was going on?" Patina asked as she took a sip of her tea.

Rarity chuckled a little as she set down her cup, she gave a small look around her kitchen, spotless as ever. "I believe the senior officer was 'bravely cowering under his desk' as he put it when I called them up while the rookie was out panicking under a local park bench just in front of the police station since the rest of the force happened to be off on holiday that day."

The two mares burst out in laughter just before the door to the boutique opened. "Rarity!" came the squeaky voice of the fashionista's younger sister. "Mom and Dad are abandoning me at your place for the week again!" she called.

Rarity let out a small sigh. "We're in the kitchen Sweetie..."

"We?" The off-white unicorn filly stopped as soon as she had taken notice of the much larger occupant of the room. "Woah... you're big..." the filly said in slight awe.

"Sweetie!" Rarity hissed. "That is very rude."

Patina held up a hand with a gentle smile. "It's fine Rarity, I'm a Royal changeling, I'm supposed to be big." She turned to the little unicorn filly. "Rarity told me that you and your friends are on a quest for something..."

"Yeah!" Sweetie Belle said as she snapped out of her confusion. "Applebloom, Scootaloo and I are looking for our cutie marks." Now that she was out of her trance though she began to ask questions at the speed of Pinkie Pie when it came to the changeling standing... sitting... in front of her.

Patina let her hand gently rub Sweetie's left ear between her fingers and the effect was almost instant, much to Rarity's surprise, the filly's eyes drooped a little as she seemed to have stopped mid-question while her body started relaxing. "I'd be happy to answer some questions Sweetie, how about getting up here with the big mares so that you can be part of the conversation?"

Sweetie Belle let out a mumbled "Mmhm..." and a slow nod. She raised her arms so that she could be picked up by the large changeling and shifted her legs so that she could sit in the mare's lap sideways.

Patina leaned the unicorn filly against her in a very motherly embrace. "So... what do you think that you and your sister want to hear first?"

Rarity was stunned as she watched the whole display, never before had she seen her sister so much as sit still for a minute, let alone allow someone she just met to pick her up like this. The fashionista wasn't jealous in too many ways, but... it was just the way the changeling held her sister that caused her to pause when Sweetie asked her question. The gentle embrace... the hand stroking the filly's ear... the quiet, motherly sounds that the changeling made. That was probably what made her most jealous, yeah... that was it... she had mommy issues and her sister was getting a lot of attention. She had to really resist the urge to roll her eyes and groan in frustration.

"Why's your belly so round?"

Patina smiled as she shifted Sweetie's position just enough to let the filly's left ear rest on her belly while she continued to rub the filly's right ear. "It's because I'm waiting on my children to be born."

"How many?" Sweetie asked as she brought a hand up to feel the ridged belly of the changeling.

"With this clutch it feels like five... I'll know exactly how many later this week though. Changelings grow really quickly, maybe you'd like to stop by the hive and see a few of the nymphs?"

Sweetie gasped and sat up quickly, turning her attention to her sister. "Oh Rarity please! Can I?"

"Oh... I..." The white mare bit her lip as she mulled the idea over in her head.

"Of course, we would recommend adult supervision, so that our own drones and someone related to her will be able to watch over them... so you're invited as well Rarity." Patina offered. "We could even go today since you already set today aside as your day off. It'll be fun!"

It took the white mare a few more mements before she relented with a sigh. "Fine... Give me a few minutes to get ready."