The rational side of Gel couldn't fight the commands. They toyed with him. He knew what they were doing but he couldn't stop himself.

"Now then." The zebra had him outside of the cage, with Muffins trapped inside him. "We think it is just about time to test how far we can take this." The zebra didn't speak in rhyme, it ate at Gel's thoughts, he had heard that they always did. The worst part about this was Muffins. She really, really got off when they made him screw her, forced her to climax again and again. "Go on now, kill that pony you have in there."

Gel's eyes went wide. He wanted to fight the command, he needed to but… but he wasn't in control. Muffins struggled as he just closed off her air. She squirmed and squirmed. Something in Gel, however, really didn't like this. The changeling, in his right mind, couldn't fight the commands. Something inside him promised it could, it would rip and tear and break and kill to protect his mare. Gel knew just what it was. It was a queen changeling. It was Crysalis' hate and anger, but twisted.

Tears came, he felt Muffins' struggles grow weaker. The changeling closed his eyes and invited that creature inside out. He gave it control and begged it to save his mare. As the heat flushed Gel, pouring over his mind like liquid fire. He felt so much more powerful now, so much more in control. He opened Muffins' airways, let her take in the precious air. "My mare, witness this." He wasn't sure why he said it but the anger within him was screaming in his ears.

Gel felt Muffins' throat work, her voice box twisting in just the right way and her lungs pumped. "Thank you." The words came from his mouth and Gel grinned. Turning the changeling looked the zebra right beside him in the eyes.

A green glow painted the wall, Muffins couldn't believe what she was feeling, but it wasn't the control and domination a changeling's gaze would normally inspire. "You are so weak, you can't stand up."

Muffins watched the zebra collapse, their eyes glowing softly with the magic Gel forced into them. "Gel, you… I love you." She felt the changeling squeeze around her and Muffins almost cried. Whatever they had done to him wasn't enough to break HER stallion!

When two more zebra approached, each with a face-mask and hurling bottles at them, Gel broke into a trot, running past the vapors that had disabled him before. He wasn't that drone anymore, he was… a king. Eyes burning with power, he said, "fall down." But they didn't follow it.

The smile curled Muffins' snout, she knew Gel was about to do something she might even be sorry about. "Gel, let me, my turn." Gel trembled around her and then she found herself laughing.

"Muffins, show them your own power." Gel delighted, his mare wanted to take part and, relaxing around her, he felt her muscles bunch and they were launched at the two trembling zebra.

"No we didn-" One tried to yell but the hoof he took to the jaw had him out cold. That is when Gel stared. A changeling drone?

"What?" Muffins exclaimed through their shared mouth. She looked down at the unconscious dark shape. "Answers!" Her hoof rose up as she did a forward flip over the downed drone and landing with that hoof inches from the other zebra's face.

"Our queen sent us to make Canterlot ready to be harvested. We had a deal with that zebra that they would give us the drugs and we would give them whatever test subjects they wanted…" The drone trembled on the ground.

The color of the downed drone's carapace suddenly stuck in Gel's head. They were not of Chrysalis' brood!

"This is bad Muffins, really bad." Gel finished the swing off, dispatching the drone and sending them to sleep. "If they attack while Canterlot is like this, nopony could stop them harvesting every single pony in the city!"

"We can." The voice came from within Gel, he felt the burning fire in it, in his mare's words.

"We can!" That fierce new part of Gel, the part he had been forced to embrace, fed on the mare inside him, her own strength fueling his. Marching back into the room, passing the zebra squirming on the floor, Gel lifted up and swung his body over, bringing a hoof sharply against the big bottle and shattering it. Inside, a second Gel smiled and leaned in, kissing against himself and, as he liked to think, Muffins. "We all can." He said it with the second gooplicate, he hoped Muffins appreciated his effort at being cool.

Flowing off a bit of his mass into his non-Muffins self, Gel stretched and looked down at the two unconscious changelings. "This is all going to Tartarus, they are going to attack today, I can almost feel it… actually, I can feel it. Come on lets go." Muffins lit her horn and carried the two into the room they had just come from, locking them into the cage she had been in. The actual zebra was still squirming on the floor.

After what he tried to do she really didn't care for him and together she and Gel left the building and found themselves behind an old store. Still in Canterlot. Gel adjusted their colors, trying to give a blend that would match the invading swarm. He could feel them all around, they were feeding off the ponies of the city and there was only one way to stop them. "Muffins, hold on. I need to stop this, I need… I need to feed."

"There is someone who might help." Muffins gestured to the castle in the distance. "Chrysalis."

Gel stopped and thought about it. "A month… wait, no, nearly two… maybe she has lost the anger…" His hooves were moving and, beside Muffins, he broke into a full gallop.

There were no guards on duty, trotting through the castle he could feel ponies being fed on all around him and more, he could feel another strong changeling presence. Another queen. They passed a group of the changelings with purple chitin, they ignored him and Muffins to Gel's thanks.

"Burn you bastards!" The sound of furious fighting was heard and he sped their pace. The room where Chrysalis was had two princesses in the middle on each side of the pod with a changeling mare standing above them. She glowed with a fire that made Gel's heart skip a beat. Twisty had fed not only on two alicorns but, apparently, Chrysalis. Her glare swept the room and spotted them. Gel was about to call out a greeting when burning green fire tore through the air toward him. "BURN!"

"It's me!" Gel ducked barely avoiding the blast. "Twisty it's Gel!" It hit him what was wrong, his disguise. He dropped it, from Muffins and himself.

"Gel!" Twisty sounded pleased but turned her head and blasted again with a fury that had Gel's ears tuck back. The invading changeling that had come up beside him cried out and ran. "Get in here, I don't know what happened. The princesses seemed fine but then they passed out. I had to drink…" Gel saw the mare's head tilt down to the pod under her. "It did something to me…"

"Me too." Gel stepped up. "We need to get her out, she might have been mad and insane, but she might just help us save the city."

"You are joking, right Gel? Please tell me you aren't going to let Chrysalis out of her pod." Muffins was looking between the two big changelings in the room. "Oh sweet Celestia you are. Go on, like I could stop you anyway. Why don't you just drink her?"

Gel's hoof crashed up to his forehead. "Of course. How much did you drink Twisty?" The other changeling… well, queen, shrugged. "Okay, last time I tried this it was only Princess Luna that managed to keep me from getting lost in her power."

Muffins crashed a hoof down. "You have another alicorn, spill any extra onto me."

"And me!" Twisty's eyes danced. Until her horn scorched another line toward the doorway.

Gel reached in. The inferno that was Chrysalis' power poured over him and it was way too much. He wasn't sure how Twisty had done this but he couldn't stand the inferno for more than a moment. There was a scream from Muffins when he dumped some power into her, something really odd seemed to happen with the mare but he had to ignore her, trust that she would handle it.

The pods kept a pony, or changeling, perfectly healthy within. They fed them and kept them safe while leaving them completely exposed to such an attack. They held the mind locked in happy thoughts. Gel drank hard and deep. The king within him surged, swelling with the power and, in turn, swelling him. He shed more off to Muffins and this time she didn't scream, she drank.

More and more power poured out, the podded queen's reserves greater than any other being. She had, after all, beaten down even Celestia with raw power.

The pod cut him off. A sudden severing of the energy to protect the life of the slumbering queen. It didn't matter, Gel called out. "Muffins, we are going to do this."

The alicorn mare lifted her head and Gel blinked at what he saw. She hadn't resisted the power, she hadn't turned it to alicorn magic. It had engulfed her. Her eyes shone with a barely suppressed green energy, her horn had twisted a little and turned black. She still had her wings and her body was still… wait, where was his gooplicate?

"I am not a queen, not even a princess, but I think I can stand with you. Come on you silly stallion, lets send this lot packing." The confidence within Muffins almost shocked her. She had only had magic for a month, but this… this was something no pony should have. She burned with power, she had felt when Gel's thin coating just seemed to soak in. She wasn't sure what she was, but the stallion beside her was more. It was exciting just walking with him, their power crackled in the air together. "What are we going to do?"

"Drink." Gel smiled, leaning down and nibbling at the mare's ear. "We are going to cut all the invader's links, undo their bonds to the ponies they think to feed from. We are going to feed instead and then we will strike."

Muffins was both shocked and surprised. Arousal was there too, the plan was audacious as anything she had heard, but the power she felt in Gel inspired her. "Tell me what you want me to do."

"Be my mare." Gel started. He let his power flow out and when he encountered the first occupied house he felt the ponies within, lost in pleasure. He also felt the changeling, leaching from them. "Mine." Gel spoke the word, but he also pushed it out into that hapless drone. He felt their feeding link falter and took it up himself, locking them out. "Muffins, reach out with me, I can invite you to feed. Tell me when ponies grow weak."

Muffins trembled, she had never… well, been a changeling before. It was absurd to think and twice so to think that she could judge that. "Gel I don't… oh!" She smiled, riding down Gel's power and finding those first three ponies, she reached to them, felt their brightness, Gel didn't lean too heavily on them but still, she watched.

Reaching again and again, grabbing pony after pony back from the changelings, Gel felt Muffins with him every second of the fight. "Keep them safe, Muffins, please keep them safe." She nodded up to him and they shared a kiss as power swelled within both of them. Even Chrysalis didn't have this amount of power and it humbled Gel to think that he could drink it all.

There was a tug at Gel's senses, Muffins was pulling his focus toward some ponies, their energy starting to wane. He ceased feeding from them, but kept up his expansion until he felt well over half the city was his.

A new changeling landed before him, a queen. "What are you doing? Give them back!" They threw a bolt of force at him, Gel had never used real magic but it seemed he didn't need to. A half-sphere of green energy soaked up the blast and beside him Muffins was giggling.

"They are mine. All of them are mine." Gel took a step toward the queen and he saw the fear in their face. "Leave now, take your drones and fly fast. Hope I don't catch up to you."

Fight or flight bit hard into the other changeling's mind, Gel could see. Their rear hoof shook and then took a step backwards. "I… I can stand against you, you are only a stallion!"

Gel watched as the other queen fired again and again, he felt her draining some poor ponies and, leaving the defense to Muffins, cut off her source. He ripped her bonds to the ponies and locked them himself. "You will leave now." Gel reached to Muffins. He couldn't use the power but, apparently his mare had been practicing.

Muffins was almost drunk as Gel started pouring energy to her. There was so much she felt bloated but she knew what he wanted. "Go." She whispered the word and a blast tore a chunk from the cobbled street as it propelled the queen away.

The invading swarm seemed to freeze. Every one of them in the city felt their queen leave and they all took to the air. "All of you, GO!" Muffins started burning off power, any of the drones that were too slow got sent the same way as the queen had.

Author's Note

Gel embraces the dominant power that Chrsyalis' energy awoke in him, pulling Muffins along for the ride. Twisty was such an awesome mare, she wouldn't let the nasty changelings take away her mares

The enemy is scattered, but that is still an invading army that is kicking around somewhere in Equestria, can anypony afford to leave them that way?

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