Black Knight

Chrysalis woke up feeling starved.

The forest next Galloping Gorge, or GG for short, was an ideal place to live. She was close to a town, and if something went... wrong, she could easily jump into the forest and run over to Cloudsdale or Vanhoover in case she wanted to make herself scarce. Unfortunately something did go wrong. All she had to do was pretend to be a stallion's wife, milk him for his love, and then wipe the experience from his mind. The stallion's wife was suppose to be working till late, but closed up shop early due to the lack of customers. Needless to say both were rather unhappy to see Chrysalis audaciously flirting with her husband.

The whole town is on a changeling hunt, and it took a lot of Chrysalis' saved up love to get out of there safely. Let them search the town all they want, there are no more changelings... Forcing herself to get up, She got ready to try and find some sort of meal. There weren't very many options. Animals could feel love, but that's a long term investment. Chrysalis actually owned quite a few pets back in GG just for that purpose, but of course she didn't have time to grab any of them. They gave her a decent amount of love, but not nearly enough. She sniffed, they may have been food to her but there were times they had been cute. Only the slightest bit cute, of course.

Chrysalis stopped when she realized that she essentially spent the last decade of her life as the crazy cat lady.

Groaning in frustration, Chrysalis slowly made her way deeper into the woods. As much as she wracked her brain, she could not find a good way to get love on the spot. Almost losing hope, she stopped when she came across a cave. Curious, she peeked inside to find an Ursa Minor. Perfect. The thing was an powerful almighty infant, with strong emotions and an easy to control mind. All she had to do was hypnotize it to believe Chrysalis was it's mother, play with it a little bit, and go along her merry way. Assuming it's Mother doesn't come home anytime-

Chrysalis halted as a large shadow approached from behind and encompassed her.

Chrysalis shot off from the location she was at and tried to lose the Ursa Major in the trees. The blasted thing must have been crankier than usual, she'd been chased by Ursa's before and even they weren't this aggressive. Running on empty love fumes, She desperately tried to think of a way out of this when she heard an oncoming train.

Chrysalis smirked, even Ursa Majors stayed away from the train tracks, all animals of the forest were scared of the giant metal object that raced by, screaming as it shot out smoke. Looks like it was the train from Vanhoover to Canterlot. Forcing herself to fly faster, Chrysalis perched herself on top of the train and waited fro the Ursa to turn around.

Chrysalis had to admit, the thing was brave, it seemed like it was actually willing to get near the train.

It was getting near the train.

Chrysalis grimaced, when the train hit the three-way it would turn towards Canterlot, the direction the Ursa was in. She wasn't very sure what to-

Ah, there you go, ponies actually making themselves useful for once.

In a desperate act, the conductor shifted the rails to make the train go from Canterlot to Galloping Gorge instead. A little counterproductive for Chrysalis, but anything to get away from that bear. Sighing in relief, Chrysalis laid down for a second to catch her breath. That was bad, another incident like that and she might not be able to make it to safety.

She was almost knocked off the train as it slammed on the breaks. Groaning, Chrysalis looked ahead to see what the problem could possibly be now.

Oh.

They were about to crash into another train.

"BAIL OUT!" Chrysalis screamed as she jumped off the end of the train.

Chrysalis flew off into the nearby woods before ducking for cover. For the next few minutes, or hours, at that moment Chrysalis really couldn't tell, there was nothing but the sound of mayhem. Two trains crashed, an Ursa Major decided it wanted to take out it's anger on the already wrecked trains, and the ponies who survived the crash screamed. Eventually, she heard the Ursa lumber off.

Silence.

Chrysalis poked her head around the corner and saw would she could only describe as a massacre. Dead ponies everywhere. Most hanging out of the windows of the train, but the few who made it out were killed by the Ursa Major. Numbly walking forward, she stopped at the pony whose stomach was torn out while running.

Dirty Secret, infiltrator. Known to stay relaxed almost any circumstances. Despite coming off lazy and snarky, he did his job surprisingly well. Was good friends with just about everyling. One time, he slapped Chrysalis on the butt when she feeling miserable over a failed mission. She screamed at him for almost an hour, but the whole time he had a stupid grin on his face. Afterwards she felt a lot better-

Chrysalis snapped back to reality.

Her hooves were dirty, she couldn't get the dirt off them though.

After scratching her hooves, she tried to turn around and leave. Instead, for some reason, she numbly continued along the wreckage. Both trains were completely trashed. What compartments weren't crumpled up in the collision were ripped open by the Ursa Major. She stopped again near two female ponies holding each other. Both of them were missing the lower halves of their body.

White Lie, despite being an assassin changeling, he had a very gentle heart and was scared of hurting others. A bit of a flirt, he would hit on many of the female infiltrators. Despite this, his was very honorable, and well liked among the others. He had an issue with sympathizing towards ponies too often. Despite being told one of these days that would get him kil-

Chrysalis kicked the dirt off her hooves again as she made her way further. A pony stallion.

Poker Face. Builder Changelings were smaller than the rest, and he was a runt among them. Despite this, he showed a scary aptitude for bluffing and pragmatic fighting. Never got angry at anyone, true to his name, he never showed an emotion that wasn't under control. When Mi Amore Cadenza and Shining Armor started casting their spell, all of the changelings stared at them in horror. Oddly enough, Poker simply sat down and watched them a calm look of acceptance. She remember finding him with of his limbs torn-

A baby changeling.

Chrysalis vomited and passed out.

Chrysalis woke up to find herself on top of a dead pony baby and a puddle of her own vomit. Shaking from starvation and nerves, Chrysalis slowly made her way out of the wreckage.

She almost didn't notice the pony sitting there.

Chrysalis berated herself for her lack of thought. Of course there would be survivors! Luckily, the filly hadn't seen her yet. Not really in the mood to make a disguise, Chrysalis turned herself into a mare with a long, drooping green mane and black fur. Taking a steady breath she looked over at the filly.

She had white fur and a two toned, blue and pink mane. She wore a torn leather jacket. From some of the tears Chrysalis imagined that child would not be alive right now if it wasn't for her taste in clothing. She was standing over a dead guard. The filly simply stared at him, not saying anything. Chrysalis brushed her hooves for dirt before slowly making her way towards the filly. Eventually, she was right next to her. Gently, she touched the filly's shoulder.

Numbly, the filly looked up at her.

Chrysalis stared back.

"I heard the collision," Chrysalis whispered, "were you?.."

The filly looked back at the body.

"They won't wake up." She croaked.

Chrysalis didn't know what to say.

"I kept trying..." Flurry quietly sobbed, "but nopony woke up."

She reached out to her hive and...

Chrysalis flinched when she felt a body press up against her. The filly was hugging her, crying.