Hell comes to Equestria

Though we were all still in dire danger and still had a great number of battles yet to face. I felt... Good. Being a father, even a hundred times or more was going to be amazing.

Twilight, Fluttershy, Dash and all the rest. I loved them all.

But I had problems with it as well, the vast majority of our fighting force was mares and plenty of them were pregnant. Not far enough along to impede them at all but it would be if we delayed too long. Not to mention if any of them got hurt the foals could be lost. I'd damn well make sure to try my best that didn't happen.

We rested and recuperated for two weeks, firstly the goblins that had fled had to be hunted down. Dash's Pegasus squads we the most maneuverable and fastest and as such were saddled with the task. Dash hated not being able to go with them, I was sure to make it clear that Dash was still in charge of her squads, she knew them best their strengths and weakness's and she needed it to help keep her mind off... Things.

I still entertained a mare each evening; I didn't look at it so much as a chore now as preserving a species. Not to mention becoming a father a crazy amount of times.

Fluttershy still stayed with me every night but she was much less interested in sex which was fine, we talked and cuddled her excitement for her foals was heart warming.

Dash however was still having a great deal of trouble dealing with not being able to fly, she was mad and short tempered a lot. I tried to keep her spirits up and a few stress relieving bouts of angry sex helped too.

With the secret lifted from her conscience Twilight seemed in much better spirits as well, we even began hanging out a bit. Discussing war plans mostly but sometimes just sitting together, she even let me hug her occasionally. Better then nothing...

The last pockets of fled goblins were wiped out, any others having fled further then we were willing to venture. We headed out; our next target was New Saddle a smaller town situated near the sea.

Our group had grown considerably, nearly seven hundred strong for our fighting force with another couple hundred non combatants. It was quite a menagerie as we traveled.

We kept up our drills and vigilance as we journeyed, we still searched for any survivors but were getting disheartened by the number of burnt our homesteads and piles of bones we were finding.

Two weeks into our journey to New Saddle we found some small signs of habitation, fields that had been tilled recently. But searching around, we couldn’t find any homes or ponies around at all.

My detection sense also could not locate anything so we continued on. In the late afternoon I finally felt something... Like a weaker version of Chrysalis’s influence, I hadn't felt anything like it before and I warned everyone quickly.

We approached the area of influence to find nothing, a small thicket of trees and bushes as well as a hill. We prepared to press into the thicket to see what was causing this phenomenon when a voice rang out.

"STOP!"

Surprised we did just that, and out from the trees came a small group of very well camouflaged ponies. Strangely I still couldn't detect them the aura surrounding this place was blocking me somehow. Very suspicious.

Twilight, Dash and I stepped forward backed by Celestia, Luna, Cadence and Armor. The small group of ponies looked confused seeing me then fell to their knees upon seeing the Princess's.

"Oh Princess! It’s so good to see you alive and well. We all feared the worst!"

She smiled graciously down on them. "Please rise, tell us what is going on here?"

The leader of the group explained quickly about how during the first strikes of the war his small village and a few others in the area bound together for protection but they knew they couldn't survive against Chrysalis’s main armies.

They got together what they would need to survive and built a new village. As he spoke he led us into the trees, a short ways into the thicket it opened up in spots for small houses and open areas. Looking up I could see that the trees either grew or had been made to grow to cover the whole area from aerial reconnaissance.

A bit deeper and we came to the hill which we could now see had been hollowed out and supported to keep its shape and inside was even more living room. Very impressive to be sure but it still didn't explain Chrysalis’s presence.

He was very proud of their ultimate trick; they had managed to capture some changelings early in the village’s construction. They found with them held in the village the other patrols sensing them usually passed by, some came to investigate though and they managed to capture even more.

They experimented with many different types of magic in order to eliminate not only their presence but also that of the changelings they had imprisoned. To make it feel to any patrols that when they flew over what they felt was nothing more then their own connection to Chrysalis.

It had seemed to work and they hadn't been bothered since, they still had to go out under cover of darkness to work their fields for the food they needed to survive.

"But now that your here we need not fear anymore! We shall join your army and take revenge on the hated Queen Chrysalis! But for tonight we must celebrate! Break out the best we have!" Ponies began to run off in every direction letting other villagers know of the upcoming party as well as the arrival of their Princess.

I gathered the wagons at the base of the woods, by then our whole group had excitedly rushed into the village happy to see other ponies and eager to celebrate.

There were about a hundred and fifty ponies in hiding here; they broke out their best food stores and drinks. Everyone was having a good time, Pinkie Pie galloped around producing balloons, streamers and games from god knows where.

Dancing, singing and games continued throughout the day, I still insisted that we have sentries posted to watch for any activity outside the village but I was sure to place them on a rotating schedule so everypony could enjoy the party.

I wasn't enjoying myself, the party was great and I enjoyed seeing all my mares but the constant nauseating aura around the village was making me sick. I excused myself as the party moved into the evening retreating out to the wagons to sleep.

I could still hear the festivities going on, I was sure some ponies were going to be very hung over tomorrow. I relaxed back and drifted off to sleep.

"Wake up..."

I grunted opening my eyes reluctantly still heavy with sleep. I looked over to find Twilight lying beside me.

Still half asleep I reached out to pull her to me stopping myself at the last second. "Twilight... What are you...?"

With a smile she rolled over atop of me kissing me fiercely.

I wrapped my arms around her kissing her passionately getting more turned on by the second... I pushed her gently away a confused look on her face.

"Wha...?"

I sighed. "Aurelia..."

She shifted back immediately a shocked look on her face. "How did you...?!"

I smiled slightly. "You taste different. I hope your not here to kill me?"

She seemed to remember herself and shook her head. "No! I'm here to warn you! This village isn't what it appears."

"What do you mean?" I asked suspiciously.

"It was all designed as a trap for any ponies looking for sanctuary. Quickly before it’s too..."

She was interrupted as the wagon door was thrown open; a small group of Changelings glowered down on us.

"Traitorous bitch! Queen Chrysalis will have your head!" With that declaration they all tried to storm into the wagon but only two could manage at a time. I was definitely unprepared for combat but it hardly mattered. The first I smashed into the wagon bed hard enough to snap its neck, the second I pulled away from Aurelia throwing it through the doorway into his companions knocking them all down onto the ground.

As they struggled to get up one of the other wagons came smashing down on top of them crushing the life from them.

I quickly struggled into my clothes, as I turned to go I suddenly turned back and clasped Aurelia to me kissing her quickly. "Thanks." I whispered.

With no time to lose I ran into the village my senses still useless to whatever magic they were using to create their field. I ran to the first cottage I saw and kicked the door open to behold a horrific sight.

The Mayor stretched out between two Changelings, they had cut her abdomen open and were tossing her stillborn foal back and forth above her as she feebly reached for it. I slammed them both into the wall with my force kneeling beside the Mayor to try to offer what comfort I could.

"My foal... Let me hold it..."

I retrieved the tiny bundle placing it in her arms; she looked down on it smiling and then gasped in pain and died.

I lost it, everything dissolved into a haze of red. Even when rescuing Dash I hadn't lost it this badly, my mind shut off completely all that was left was instinct and rage.

When I regained my senses the first thing I noticed was my extreme weariness, I fell to my knees exhausted gasping for air. Staring at the ground I noticed several more things. The ground under my knees was red; I could smell the iron tang of blood in the air along with a myriad of other scents, piss, shit and vomit.

Something was stuck in my mouth; I spit it out amazed and disgusted as a gobbet of dark flesh bounced away from me. I looked down at myself there wasn't a part of me that wasn't covered with gore, bits of flesh stuck to me in my hair, under what remained of my clothes.

I looked around wiping the blood out of my eyes to a scene of carnage, I was in the center of the village and all around me were strewn pieces of Changeling. In the trees, the ground, spread across the cottages.

Past the carnage, in a circle around me were ponies staring wide eyed in horror at me. The three Princess's surrounded me in a magical field sweeping me away to a secluded cabin, they dumped water on me to clean me off and pushed me inside slamming and locking the door behind me as I collapsed onto the floor and passed out.

When I finally came to I was alone in the dark house, I laid there awhile trying to remember what happened. There was a knock at the door and it swung open and Twilight entered the door closing and locking behind her.

"Twilight..." I reached out for her but pulled back as she stared horrified at me.

"Don't... Just sit."

I sat back and she explained what had happened.

The screams of the two Changelings that had killed the Mayor had alerted some ponies that something was amiss, I had ripped their wings off and broke their legs leaving them in the center of the village as I went door to door, house to house hunting until I had nearly all hundred and fifty of the 'villagers' gathered. Some I had killed like the group that attacked me at the beginning of the night but most were gathered.

Then unfazed by the groups of ponies watching I began torturing and killing them... Slowly. Ripping limbs and skin off, tearing them slowly in two. Vivisecting them one at a time so the others could see what was coming, some of them suicided others killed one another in their urge not to be the next.

She and several of the others had tried to talk me down to no avail I had blocked myself off with a dome of force as well as my mind having snapped.

In the aftermath every Changeling had been killed and deep in the cavern under the hill they had found nearly a hundred captive ponies. We had lost fifty ponies of our own in the Changelings initial surprise attack and could have lost a great deal more, quite possibly all. Of the fifty we lost thirty eight were mares and twelve of them had been pregnant.

"Dammit!" I cursed causing Twilight to back off again, I held up my hands. "Sorry, sorry."

"There’s been a lot of... Talk. Ponies are worried and scared... Of you. Your actions were totally beyond... Anything we could have imagined. The Princess's are very concerned about what to do... What you might do..."

"THEY KILLED MY FOALS!!" I shouted slamming my fists onto the floorboards splintering and snapping several of them.

Twilight screamed pressing herself against the door.

I backed off immediately as far from her as I could. "I'm sorry Twilight, please. Don't be scared of me, I'd never hurt you. I love you..."

I collapsed down with my head on the floor my hands covering it trying to come to grips with how I screwed everything up so bad.

I heard Twilights gentle hoof clicks as she came over to me and knelt down beside me hugging me gently. "I don't know what their going to do..."

"Fluttershy... Did she...?"

"She... She can't see you now, she's scared... I don't think she'll ever..."

I sighed. "What the hell did I do? The others?"

"Applejack and Rarity understand but... They don't want to... I mean they can't..."

"I understand..."

"Pinkie Pie was so horrified she’s still hiding... Dash tried to convince everyone but..."

I leaned back suddenly thinking of something. "Aurelia!"

"That Changeling?"

"She’s not like them she tried to warn me."

"They found her in your wagon, she came along peacefully. She’s being held somewhere else... Listen, there’s going to be a trial this evening... I... I don't know what their going to do to you."

"It doesn't matter."

"Don't say that! It’s my fault your here! I don't want you to... Die."

I hugged her tightly for a moment. "Thanks. I won't let them kill me. But I won't hurt anypony either... We'll just have to see what they say. I'm so sorry Twilight; I swear I've never been like that before. But I've never had my loved ones murdered before either..."

"I'll talk to them. I can convince them..."

"No. Better not."

"What? Why?"

"If everyone thinks I'm a danger, their all afraid of me... Then if you stand up for me it'll be bad for you. I don't want that, I'll be ok really. Just tell them I'll take whatever punishment they come up with."

"But..."

I interrupted kissing her softly. "Sorry. This might be the last chance I ever get to do that. I love you Twilight, please don't ever forget that. I love Fluttershy and Dash and all the rest too but you... Well, never mind. You better go before they get suspicious."

She leaned over and kissed me firmly then stood up walking to the door and knocking; the guards posted there let her out and locked the door again quickly.

I laid back waiting, with all the Changelings dead whatever magic they used to create the field turned off I could again sense all the ponies around. It was a comforting presence even if they all feared me now.

A few short hours and the door opened the three Princess's waiting to bring me to the trial; their combined magic encompassed me lifting me off the ground as they brought me to the edge of the village where the wagons had been set back up. No one wanted to go anywhere near the village obviously.

It looked like pretty much every pony was gathered; I searched the crowd but couldn't see Fluttershy or Pinkie Pie, Applejack and Rarity were there but didn't meet my gaze. Dash and Lyra both seemed happy to see me and smiled bravely my way as the Princess's set me down their magic still entrapping me, another group of unicorn guards brought out Aurelia similarly bound and placed her beside me.

Her head was lowered she probably thought she was about to be sentenced to death. I wasn't so sure I wasn't about to also face such a sentence but I was sure I wouldn't let them kill me or her, if we had to flee and live on the outskirts of Equestria avoiding Chrysalis and the Princess's then so be it.

"We have brought the two of you here on serious charges, Changeling your crime is simply being who you are... However it has been expressed that perhaps you wished to defect and came to warn us of the danger we faced here." She gestured behind her to the village. She turned to me. "Which brings us to you."

Some of the ponies in the assembly booed and jeered, I couldn't blame them they really didn't know how I helped them, even before they only knew just what I had done here and that would likely stick in their minds a long time.

"We have been informed that you do not wish to dispute the charges against you, a wise decision as I have no idea how you could. Such brutality, even worse then our enemies might perpetuate is unforgivable. However the circumstances certainly played a great deal in what happened, still we can no longer trust you as we did. Does anypony here wish to speak up for this individual?"

We looked out at the assembled ponies I spotted Dash with a serious look on her face about to step up; I caught her eye and shook my head at her. She frowned and stubbornly put her hoof forward; I smiled at her cute determination and shook my head again. She grimaced but stepped back holding up her forehoof to block Lyra’s passage as she too was about to step up.

Nopony else moved, Twilight was beside the Princess's and I could see she wanted to say something but she honoured my wishes and stayed silent. The Princess's looked about for a moment then continued. "We three have thought on a just punishment and now we shall render it unto you. You are stripped of your authority as the general of our army; Shining Armor shall take up that role."

Cheers and hoof stomps for that proclamation. "Furthermore you are forbidden to have any contact with any pony here unless they initiate it, nor come close even. You shall be watched closely, any aggressive action will be dealt with severely."

More cheering from the crowd. "We do still need your assistance in the struggle ahead. If you are willing."

I inclined my head as far as I could from my confinement. "I am still willing to help in any way I can."

"Excellent. We will discuss it later. You Changeling, I don't see what further use or harm you might be as you have given us all the information on your mother you have. If you wish you may travel with us, but you too shall be watched carefully... In fact I think perhaps it will be best if you travel with him." She pointed to me.

"I would appreciate that your highness." Aurelia said.

"Then so be it."

With that their horns glowed and we were teleported away. I found myself beside the wagon Fluttershy and I had been sharing, Aurelia was beside me. The wagon had been moved a considerable distance away from the rest about a hundred meters.

"Well welcome to your new home Aurelia." I grinned. "Still glad you helped us?"

She smiled slightly. "To be honest I wasn't sure helping you was the right thing to do... Doesn't matter now."

I was about to comfort her when a pair of shapes hurdled out of the darkness tackling me to the ground. Dash and Lyra, we hugged happily and I kissed them both very glad to see them.

Dash looked at Aurelia with barely veiled contempt. "I'm not talking in front of her! I still don't trust her."

"Dash come on, she came to warn us..."

"Ya what if it was just a trick to get the Princess's to give you the boot? Drive a wedge between us all?!"

"Sacrifice a hundred and fifty of her own children for that? I don't know Dash."

"Well..."

"She would..." Aurelia whispered. "She doesn't think of us as her children... Just slaves, there was a time when it wasn't like that. But her defeat made her bitter, angry... Insane... We're to be used and discarded when we're of no further use, if they capture me now my death won't be quick... I'll leave you alone."

"Aurelia..." I called out to her but she had already gone into the wagon and closed the door.

"Humph... So why did you stop us?! We should have told the Princess's they were being crazy!" Dash burst out Lyra nodding along with her.

"Dash, if everypony hates and distrusts me already why would I want them to feel the same about you two?" I squeezed them both tightly. "I saw you wanted to stick up for me, that’s more then enough."

"I guess... It’s still not fair! After everything you've done for them...!"

I chuckled. "It’s ok Dash. I'll still be able to help that’s the important thing. You two better head back, don't want them talking right?"

"Let em try! I'll give them a hoof to the face!"

We all laughed and hugged again, I kissed them each and they galloped off. I entered the wagon to find Aurelia curled up in the far corner; I went and sat down on the bed getting undressed.

"There plenty of room on the bed Aurelia. Fluttershy and I..." Looking around I could see Fluttershy had taken everything of hers; I really wasn't going to see her again... I fell back in the bed with an exasperated sigh and groan. I laid there a minute when I felt her slid onto the bed beside me.

I turned to look at her, her big green cat eyes staring at me. "Sorry it all turned out this way..." She whispered.

I gently caressed the side of her face. "Same for you. Still it could be worse."

She laughed. "How exactly?"

I leaned back on the bed pulling her close causing her to gasp in surprise. "We could be alone."

She blushed slightly. "Oh." Suddenly I heard her stomach rumble.

"Oh? Didn't they feed you?"

"You know we Changelings don't eat in the normal fashion..."

"Right, sorry. Well you can feed on some of my love right...?"

She looked at me longingly. "No. I swore to the Princess's I wouldn't feed on any love from any pony or for any pony... I'll be ok..." She whispered as she pulled away.

I refused to relinquish my grip and pulled her close again kissing her softly, a strange sensation I wasn't sure exactly what she would feel like. Chitin, hard and unyielding? But no, more like very soft leather, her lips not unpleasant at all and her eyes widened in shock though she didn't attempt to pull away.

"What about my love for you?"

"What...? Me? No you can't..."

I kissed her again interrupting her. "Why not? You, Dash and Lyra... You’re all I've got now. You endangered yourself to try to help me... Help us all. And you are quite beautiful..."

She blushed and shifted into Twilights form. "Would you like me to...?”

I shook my head gently. "No, just be you..."

She blushed again and suddenly pressed herself against me kissing me fiercely shifting back her slender forked tongue invading my mouth; it felt very strange but incredibly erotic as well. I grew erect quickly rubbing against her with need.

"Oh...!" She rolled on top of me accepting my member into her soft wet sex. "This isn't the usual method of feeding on love but..." She leaned down kissing me as she slowly rode up and down her wings flittering uncontrollably. We made out feverishly as she increased and decreased her tempo, we gasped and groaned together finally culminating in a shared climax late in the night.

She lay against me and I pulled the covers up over us as we drifted off to sleep.

Well I royally fucked up this time.

What else could go wrong?