The Queen's General

Chrysalis followed the scout with her personal guard behind her. They made their way through where the equestrian army had attacked. Going through Chrysalis saw how many of them died. "Seems there were more than four thousand then the reports said." One guard commented. Chrysalis ignored him as they walked through the battlefield. She glanced from one dead to the next.

'He managed to wipe out this army with only two thousand changelings and that wasn't even our full army.' Indeed, it wasn't. Chrysalis had separated her army in order to guard every passage that would lead to their tunnels. Now staring at the size of this army, she knew she made a mistake even though it seemed like the right one. As the group made their way into the enemy camp, they were all surprised at what they saw which confirmed the scout report.

"He wasn't kidding." One guard commented.

All around the camp was the enemy who had no weapons. Staring, Chrysalis saw they had their hands were tied behind their backs signifying they had surrendered and were taken prisoner. All around they layed on the ground dead with their blood coating the ground. She could also see some were missing flesh off their faces as well as their eyes. Perhaps from the buzzards that had surrounded the bodies but scattered when her group had walked up. Walking up to one body she rubbed her hand across the dead guard face before she slowly grasped the helmet and removed it. She stared at this guard who seemed to only be eighteen. The guard eyes were opened and appeared to b e staring up at her even there was no life in them. She saw he had his neck slit open. She raised her hand to and gently closed the guard eyes then stood up.

Turning to the scout and spoke. "Continue leading the way." The scout nodded his head as he motioned for them to follow him. As the group left, Chrysalis had one thought on her mind. 'What other things would you do in order to win General?'

Twilight emerged in mid air above the throne room floor with her wings spread. As she landed Princess Luna smiled and approached her. 

“My, my Twilight Sparkle with an entrance like that you are becoming even more worthy of your title. Greetings to you Princess of Magic.”

"Thank you Princess Luna. I came as soon I could. Is it true?"

Luna looked out one of the throne room windows. While the window was large it was dwarfed by the jewel encrusted walls of the throne room. She stayed silent for sometime. Twilight couldn't help getting a little timid from the silence. Without turning to look at Twilight Luna spoke.

"We have indeed lost contact with the force we sent to the changeling capital."

Twilight was quiet as she heard Luna speak. "No word?"

"I'm afraid not my dear Twilight."

Twilight turned and saw Princess Celestia. Instead of bowing she smiled and hugged the sun goddess. Celestia looked down at Twilight and could tell that the young princess was eager to take on the changeling queen for a third time. Celestia continued.

"We have even not heard word from the outpost there nor the city Sandlot."

Twilight bit her lip as she started to think. She paced quietly while Luna and Celestia watched her. They both were about to speak as Twilight interrupted them.

"WE NEED...... a list.

"Twi-"

"On the list should be different lists of our lists of plans."

"I alre-"

"The lists have to be in order from least do-able to most do-able so that way we encourage ourselves to do the least do-able....or should we place them in-"

Celestia continued to try to speak, but Twilight was on a roll. Luna let out a long sigh and face-hooved. She took in a deep breath and channeled some magic.

"T W I L I G H T S P A R K L E ! ! ! W I L L Y O U A L L O W M Y S I S T E R T O S P E A K? ! "

The walls of the castle shuddered from the power of Luna's voice. Twilights ears were ringing like they never have before. She wore a shy smile.

"Oh...uh sorry Princess."

Celestia smiled.

""Celestia where is Cadence? We need to get this meeting started already." Luna spoke.

Twilight joined in.

"I can't wait to see Cadence! I haven't seen her in almost a month. I need to show her a picture of a new dress for her otherwise Rarity will freak!"

"Exactly how much would she freak?" A voice spoke out causing everypony to see a the pony they were asking about standing there.

"Cadence!" Twilgiht shouted as she rushed over to her. The ponies watched as they did their little....dance with smiles and embraced afterward.

"Glad to see I am just chopped liver." A joking voice spoke out from behind Cadence causing Twilight to smile as she ran around and embraced her brother.

"Glade to see you both made it here." Luna spoke.

Both Cadence and Shining turned serious as they walked towards the table. When they stood by it, Shining spoke first. "I heard the froce we sent haven't reported back nor has the outpost by Sandlot."

Celestia nodded her head. "You have indeed heard right. That is why we called this meeting."

"Maybe they just encountered more resistance than we thought." Cadence spoke.

"Even they did it wouldn't matter. The changelings have no strategy besides just rushing in. Their morale is also broken." Luna spoke.

Celestia turned towards Shining who seemed to be thinking and was in deep thought. "What is your opinion Captian?" Celestia addressed him as captain since she knew he hated to be called prince.

He was quiet then spoke up. "I have a bad feeling."

"Brother? What do you mean?"

Shining was silent for a few minutes then finally spoke with confusion in his in his voice. "Not for certain," He glanced out the window towards where the changelings were. "It's what I fear that may come."

"Oh god." One changeling commented as they approached the outpost. As they walked through, Chrysalis saw her army were standing around or sitting though they all bowed when they saw her. Walking through she saw bodies of guard strung about everywhere. She saw one sliced in half with his organs laying on the ground with blood pouring out. She even saw a few insects inside feasting on the body while flies buzzed around. As the group continued their walk they saw the slaughter.

Everywhere were bodies laying about. Chrysalis saw a family hugging a young colt. Each of them had been stabbed through their head which granted them a quick death. Coming up she saw another colt who layed on the ground. His neck was indeed snapped, but what disturbed her was the fact his head was completely twisted where it was facing backwards. She even could see a bone sticking through his neck that had began to make a puddle of blood.

"This...was a slaughter." One changeling commented.

Chrysalis opened her mouth only to close it as she heard a yell of pain. She motioned for her guards to follow her. Coming around the corner she saw more of her changelings though they were staring ahead. Glancing over she saw three officers she had left in charge of her army, but she was confused why one wore bandages around his head. 'Must have been from the battle.' Chrysalis thought as she pushed her way through. When she finally reached what they were staring at her jaw dropped.

A pony that was a commander from the symbol on his chest piece was laying on the ground bleeding. She could also see some his bones wore broke judging by the unnatural bend in his arms and legs. Standing in front of the downed commander was Raam who raised his leg and stomped on the pony chest causing him to spit out blood.

"Your majesty!"

Glancing to her right, Chrysalis saw the officers run up to her where they bowed but quickly rose. "You have to stop him! This is.....wrong!"

Chrysalis glanced back over towards Raam who reached down grabbing the pony by the neck and lifted him up in the air with his right hand causing the commander helmet to fall off. Looking Chrysalis saw a brown stallion with a green mane. His eyes were a deep brown. Raam held the pony choking him. "Where is the next outpost?" Raam hissed.

The pony reply was to spit blood into Raam face then spoke. "Go to Tartarus."

Raam glared at this pony while squeezing harder causing the pony to choke.

Chrysalis stepped forward speaking with an authoritative voice. "Raam!" The said General turned towards her. "Release him!"

"Better....do...as the bitch commands." The pony taunted Raam causing him to glare at this pony while the changelings were also glaring at him for calling their queen that while Chrysalis just ignored it though her eyebrow did twitch.

Raam growled then dropped the pony who fell onto the ground letting out a grunt of pain. Turning towards Chrysalis he bowed. "What do you think you are doing!?"

Raam looked up at her with confusion. "ANSWER ME!"

Raam stared at her then finally answered. "Slaughtering for the Queen."

"Even killing innocents!?"

Raam stood up to stare at her with a cold look though he always had it. "Keep the element of surprise. Dead tells no tales."

Chrysalis glared at her general staring into his eyes trying to get a fix on his emotion, but all she could feel was his loyalty to her and nothing else. "It matters not. You never attack innocents!"

"They would have informed the enemy of our whereabouts." Raam calmly explained causing Chrysalis to grit her teeth.

Chrysalis opened her mouth...

"How rich." A voice spoke cutting her off. Everyone stared at the commander who was laughing even though it caused him pain. "He actually did what we did to your cities."

Everychangeling mouth dropped open. "What?"

"You heard me. When we took over some of your cities, we gathered all your 'citizens' and killed them. Watching the little ones be crushed were quite entertaining."

Chrysalis eyes were glaring at full rage at this....demon. "You killed them all."

The pony spat out some blood before smiling, showing his teeth covered in blood. "I enjoyed every second of it! The little things kicking and screaming! I was going to make sure your entire race would die!"

Chrysalis didn't say anything as tears formed in her eyes as she thought of her subjects who died.

the pony opened his mouth only to be cut as Raam slammed his boot onto his head and began putting pressure down on the pony head where he began to yell in pain, but stopped yelling as Raam stopped putting pressure on his head. Raam glanced over towards Chrysalis who stared back at him. The two stared at one other. Chrysalis was thinking of what to do. She could have Raam step down as General to ensure there would be no more slaughter. She glanced down at this monster in pony form who easily gloated about slaughtering her race. Chrysalis thought more and more then finally made a decision.

"General." Raam stared at her waiting her orders. "I give you command of the entire army. Do what you must."

Everychangeling glanced at their queen with their eyes wide and mouths opened in shock. Chrysalis turned the other way. "I will be following you though General. Perhaps seeing their queen will give my changelings morale."

Raam stared at her back as she walked away then stopped. "General?" Raam didn't speak as he simply stared at her. "Kill them all."

With that said, Raam looked down at the pony then began to put pressure down once more causing him to scream louder. The changelings all heard the pony skull cracking and breaking but only watched as Raam continued to put more and more pressure but going slowly. The pony soon had blood coming out of his eyes and ears. The next thing was his eyes had popped out squirting blood everywhere on Raam who seemed unfazed by it. When he had enough Raam raised his boot then slammed down as hard as he could completely smashing the pony face leaving nothing but smashed skin and skull while blood and brain began to coat the ground.

With his boot still in the puddle of blood and brain, Raam looked towards the changelings. "The time of the Equestria is over. The time of the Changeling has arrived! This world is ours!"

The changeling all raised their weapons and began cheering even after witnessing this brutal death. Chrysalis stood off to the side staring at Raam. "A monster to his enemies. A hero to his people."