The Queen's General

It had been a few hours since the strange creature was taken away to be healed. His injury were bullet wounds (though the Changelings were unaware of what guns and bullets were). Using their magic, they managed to completely heal the wound on his chest though it had left many changelings tired from the amount of magic used. It would take some time for that injury to heal completely, but for now, the sages had done their jobs. The creature was no longer at Death’s doorstep but was under guard by two changelings as it layed in a bed with it's wrists being strapped down to the bed.

One of the guards couldn't help himself as he walked towards the creature, raising a hand to poke it. Only to let out a grunt of pain as the other guards slapped his hand glaring at him. The guard let out a nervous chuckle even as he was grabbed and dragged back to his position at the entrance. "What is this thing supposed to be anyway?"

"Does it matter? The Queens says it could help us win the war."

The changeling that asked the question glanced over towards the creature. "Doesn't look so tough."

The other guard scoffed. "That's what you said about number 99 and looked what happened to you 66."

The guard named 66 sputtered before finally speaking. "How was I supposed to know that 99 was an ex elite? Give me a break 106."

106 scoffed again causing 66 to roll his eyes. "Whatever. I'm just saying. This.." 106 glanced over towards Raam. "Thing give the creeps. Like I am staring at death itself."

66 glanced over to his comrade to see he did have an uneasy look in his eyes. "Maybe you just worried about the war."

106 sighed. "Maybe you are right."

The two were silent once more just staring at the creature. "So any nice female changelings lately?" 66 asked causing 106 to facepalm while muttering something about idiots.

After the summoning, Queen Chrysalis had returned to her throne to rest while she waited for the news of the creatures well-being to see if it would die or not. It must survive! She had put everything into her spell to summon something that would help her people. Chrysalis sighed and couldn't help but look around even though she seen this place repeatedly.

A long, red velvet carpet lead from the massive oak doors of the castle all the way to Queen Chrysalis’ throne. Along each side of the carpet were onyx statues placed at even intervals, also leading all the way to the throne. The statues along the left side appeared to be male while those on the right side were females. Chrysalis stared at the rulers of old the sound of the doors being open caused her to glance at the entrance.

In walked one of the sages. Like all sages he wore the standard robe that covered their entire body making it seem like they wore no armor. Chrysalis knew that they wore a lighter obsidian armor underneath their cloaks and also carried a double-bladed sword that they could fold up called a Zhaboka. Chrysalis knew they were very capable of defending themselves and her.

The sage walked forward and upon reaching the throne, which had great arches stretching out from its sides, took a knee. The sage had one fist clenched over his heart, and his other fist firmly planted on the tiled floor. "My queen."

"Rise." The sage rose to his feet and looked into his Queen’s eyes. They were strong, despite how much stress had affected them. A strand of her blue locks fell across her face, but she pulled it back over her ear, not breaking eye contact.

"How may I serve you?"

"How is the creature doing?" Chrysalis asked immediately.

The sage was quiet as he thought of what words to say. "The creature is......stable your highness. However..." He trailed off as he saw Her staring at him. "He will survive though we do not know when he will awake."

Chrysalis fist crunched up as she tried to control her temper. The creature would survive, but they weren't sure when it would awake. By then her whole race would lose the war! She unclenched her fist and let out a breathe. "You dismissed."

The sage bowed his head then turned to walk out the doors leaving Chrysalis sitting on her throne with two of her personal guards standing on each side of her. Chrysalis sighed as she decided to speak with her changeling's through their hive mind link.

"So no changelings eh mate?" 66 asked for hundredth time while 106 was gripping his spear.

'I know I will be executed for treason, but it will be so damn worth it!' 106 growled in his mind as he glared at 66.

"Hey, man. I ain't gonna judge if you play for the other team." 106 glanced at him in confusion. "You like male changelings"

106 growled as he turned and tackled 66 causing him to let out an oof as they fell to the ground with 106 on top of him strangling his neck. "You.....are......really......pissing......off!" Every word spoke, 106 slammed 66 head into the ground while also choking him.

66 spoke out, but it all came out as a gurgle.

"My children." Chrysalis voice spoke through the hive link causing 106 to stop trying to kill 66 as he got off then picked his weapon up as did 66.

"The war has brought us pain, suffering, and loss."

All through the tunnels the changelings listened to their queen.

"This war has also brought us closer than ever. Something the ponies will never understand."

Outside the tunnel, in a different land stood changelings soldier with scars and bruises on them as they stood behind a barricade facing towards Canterlot. Each had a determined look on their face as they were also being rallied by the sound of their queen's voice.

"The ponies think of us as monsters. They want us to throw away our very lives....and empire."

The changeling citizens were glancing towards the palace where the Queen sat with hopeful looks.

"We will not! We are proud changelings! Though hope seems lost, we have a savior! One that will help us win this war! I ask of you....to stand strong and united! Together.....we will drive the ponies back!"

The changeling all throughout the land who heard the queen cheered. 66 smiled as he turned to 106 who also smiled back at him. The two, however, heard the bed straining. The two shared a glance then slowly turned towards the bed where the creature lay only for their eyes to widen as they saw it staring at them with what appeared to be a pissed off expression.

106 gulped before speaking in the hive link. "My queen. The creature is awake.....it looks pissed. Please send more guards."

As the word were sent through the link, the creature pulled its arms free as the straps broke with ease. The two changeling guards let out gulps as they saw the creature stand to its full height towering over them. 66 glanced at it before speaking out loud. "Why did the sages think it was a good idea to fix and leave its armor on?"

There was nothing, but darkness. It seemed like an endless void with no ending or beginning. Raam body floated in this endless thing. His eyes were closed as if he was dead. The hole on his chest remained as it showed his insides. Raam was so weak that he couldn't even open his eyes. He could voices though. Impossible! He had died. He felt the humans weapon slam into him.

"Di.....it.....did It!" Raam heard a voice though he could barely make out what they were saying.

"Heal..." Raam could feel himself slipping back into unconsciousness, but he felt his body being lifted and even felt his knife being removed. If he had the strength he would of have stopped them.

He felt his body being moved before being lay down on something soft. It was then Raam passed out.

He once again found himself alone in the darkness once more. He couldn't feel the hive link of his queen or his fellow Locust. He only felt dread. The link would only not work if the locust was dead, but he wasn't as he could still feel himself alive. The other reason......would be if every Locust was dead.

'My Queen. My....people.'

Raam had never feared anything in his life. He had faced countless battles with no fear and only armed with his Kryll and knife. He now felt fear. Not for himself, but for his queen and people. That fear soon turned to anger as he clenched his fist in anger. Those Humans! He swore that he will find those two and everything they care for and destroy them.

"My children." Raam stopped his thought as he heard a voice being spoken through his mind.

'My Queen?'

"The war has brought us pain, suffering, and loss."

Raam was confused. The voice sounded female like his queen though it sounded different than her voice.

"This war has also brought us closer than ever. Something the ponies will never understand."

Raam had a confused look on her face. Ponies?

"The ponies think of us as monsters. They want us to throw away our very lives....and empire."

Raam was quiet as he thought of what he was hearing.

"We will not! We are proud changelings! Though hope seems lost, we have a savior! One that will help us win this war! I ask of you....to stand strong and united! Together.....we will drive the ponies back!"

Raam decided that he needed to wake up. The question was how. As Raam thought how to do this he noticed a light coming towards him which enveloped him. He opened his eyes to see a black ceiling with what appeared to be a green light going through it. Raam tried to sit up but felt his arms were held back. Glancing down he saw they were strapped down. Before he could free himself he saw something out of the corner of his eye. He glanced over to see two bipedal things that were black and looked to be wearing an obsidian armor. Their eyes were also completely blue. The two were also carrying a stick with a sharp point on the end.

"My queen. The creature is awake.....it looks pissed. Please send more guards." Raam heard another voice speak through his mind as
he stared at them before ripping his arms free. He slowly got out of the bed. His boots made a loud thud sound as they hit the ground. He slowly stood up until he was towering over the two.

Raam couldn't help but feel satisfaction as he heard them gulp. "Why did the sages think it was a good idea to fix and leave its armor on?" One of them spoke to the other as they stared at Raam who simply stared at them with a cold calculating look. Before Raam could take a step forward there was a flash of green causing Raam to cover his eyes with one hand. When he lowered his hand after the glow disappeared, he saw what appeared to be a female of these things. She, however, looked completely different than the other two.

She wore a black robe with edges lined in the same emerald green as her eyes, both contrasting her dark, ebony skin. On top her head, Raam saw a gnarled, jagged, black horn protruding through the sea blue lengthy hair. That was all Raam stared at surprising Chrysalis. Most man no matter what always loved to stare at a woman but this creature simply stared at her with cold calculating eyes as if he was simply sizing up another thing to kill.

Chrysalis shook her head then walked up towards the creature while her guards were tensed as they kept their eyes on the creature. Chrysalis was a foot away from the Raam as he stared down at her while the queen had to look up at him. She stood slightly over his belly and a little close to his chest.

"Greetings. What are you, and from where do you live?”

Raam stared at the queen with narrowed eyes as he recognized her voice that was inside his head.

One of the changelings that entered the room behind them after Chrysalis just left them in the throne room stepped forward with a look of an anger when the creature didn't answer their queen. He stepped forward and poked Raam in the chest with his spear. "Our queen asked you a question!"

Raam response was to quickly knock the spear out of the guards hand causing it fall to the ground with a clank then grabbed him by his helmet with his right hand and raised him up. The changelings were so shocked that they didn't do anything. Chrysalis watched as this thing was crushing her guard helmet along with his head inside with one hand. She could hear the guard screaming in agony as he was kicking Raam trying to stop him.

Chrysalis finally decided to step in. "ENOUGH!"

Raam stopped crushing the insect as he heard a female voice shout. He looked at her while the guards blood was pouring out of his helmet and covering Raam hand in green blood while some it was also dripping to the ground. The changeling wasn't dead cause Raam could still hear him breathing barely and was still struggling to try to get free.

Chrysalis raised her hand which began to glow green and it was pointed at Raam. "Release him."

Raam stared at her well mostly her hand trying to figure out what it was. Another thing was that he felt complied to follow her order. That confused him greatly. But why?

"We saved you from dying. YOU.....OWE.....US!"

The two stared at each other not backing down until Raam dropped the changeling who fell to the ground trying to pull his helmet off that was crushed as he blood was pouring out of it. Two guards ran up to him while making sure Raam didn't try anything as they pulled him back and quickly took him to get healed and to remove the helmet.

Chrysalis lowered her hand as she stared at this creature. "My queen. What should we do?" One changeling asked through their hive link.

Before she could speak she heard the creature growled causing everyone to tense. The creature then spoke, but it sounded more like a hiss. "Stay out of my mind."

The changelings eyes widened as did Chrysalis who stared at the creature with curiosity. 'How can it hear our hive mind link? Was it part of a hive?' Chrysalis thought as she stared at the creature.

Raam stared at the queen he assumed. He felt drawn to her for some reason. Was it cause of the hive mind link he had with his own kind and now it was drawing him to serve another queen? Raam knew they happened to be at war against something called ponies. He wouldn't much care, but perhaps he could feel some sort of relation to these things as they fought for their own survival much like the Locust against the Lambent and Humanity.

"What is your name?" Chrysalis asked causing Raam to break his train of thought as he stared at her.

He stared at her not sure what to say until he decided to speak. "Raam."

"Raam. I imagine you want to know why I summoned you here?" The General simply stared at her. "We are a nation at war with our rival, Equestria. My race can't seem to gain an edge over them despite us outnumbering them."

Raam stared at her thinking. 'Seems just like us.'

"With nowhere left to turn, I took a chance a spent nearly every ounce of my energy casting a spell. This spell was by far the riskiest I have ever casted in all my years. It was meant to rip a random being from his or her dimension and transport them here. Whether or not it was a true success is yet to be declared. Now, tell me, Raam, who are you and what are you?”

Raam stared at her before answering. "I am the General of the Locust."

Chrysalis frowned when he didn't say anything more about it but shook it off and decided to get straight to the point. “I wish for you to serve in the military of the Changeling Empire. I believe you may be what we need drive those foul Equestrians back and win the war. Therefore, if you aid me, I will reward you beyond your wildest dreams. What do you say?”

Raam stared her with a calculating look until he felt his gut telling him to join her. Throughout his whole military career, Raam was not successful most of the time just being stronger, faster, and smarter though it helped. He had always followed his gut instincts as well. With that thought, Raam walked forward causing the guards to point their weapons at him. He stood a foot away from Chrysalis before bowing on one knee. "I live to serve my Queen." Raam hissed out.

Chrysalis stared at him with a smile showing off her sharp fangs.