Pinkie wobbled down, her legs tired. She looked around the castle. "Hay, Spike?" Her voice echoed, or seemed to. "Huh, I wonder where he has gotten to." She turned and trotted to the dining room and somehow was into an apron faster than any earth pony had any right to be able to be. "Time to cook!" She trotted into the kitchen, completely missing the fact that their was whipped cream still smooshed into her tail.

Twilight twitched as she walked in next, a gooplicate right behind her. "Pinkie, we need to refine that tickle spell, it is… well almost too good." The worn out alicorn sat in her chair and noticed an odd look coming over Gel's form. The goo pony had followed her like a pet but now it seemed like he was in there, properly. "Hi!"

Gel was immediately against Twilight and hugging her. "You aren't going to believe what happened. It was a changeling invasion, in Canterlot!" Twilight's jaw dropped and she stared at him. "Not my changelings… well, I think they are Twisty's now, but there was another hive poisoning everypony, making them act all horny as a seven horned unicorn."

Pinkie's head poked out of the kitchen. "Did you save the drugs?" Gel blinked at her, tilting his head. He then nodded with a grin. "Woo! We need a special party with a special cake!" She retreated back into the kitchen.

"Is everypony okay?" Twilight leaned into the stallion's hug. Things just felt… better, with him around. She wasn't sure why but sharing things with him, even things like her friends, was super fun.

"They are I had to… wait, no." The changeling's eyes went huge as saucers. "There are ponies missing. A lot!" Gel struggled and picked up an idea. He shifted between the two bodies, so far apart. If he kept it up and did it fast enough, he could actually control them both equally even though they were far apart.

"Celestia is saying that some of the guard are missing too and one… one is being tracked!" Gel was focusing on the reports Celestia was getting, passing them back to Twilight. "Apparently the signal is coming… from just north of here. Twilight, the swarm is coming to Ponyville!"

"Princess Celestia, I told her, can you-" Gel was telling the princess when she stepped up and forward, wrapping a wing around muffins and Gel, another around Luna and Twisty. The bright flash of golden light stunned everypony, none expected Celestia to teleport them.

The dichotomy of being in two locations at once, two very distant locations, narrowed and faded and Gel realized that apart from Rarity, he was all in the one room.

"Princess Celestia!" Twilight pulled from Gel's embrace and turned, giving a bow to her mentor. "Gel said we are going to be invaded?"

"Yes, Princess Twilight." The title, spoken by Celestia, hit Twilight hard. "We can feel our guard's tracker nearing it is… it is not far from town. We can't just avoid this, we must regain my ponies."

A chill ran through Gel, Celestia had named him one of her ponies, but to hear her declare it in that tone, made him ache. "Twisty is so lucky." He only meant to think it but the words spilled out. Twilight looked to him in surprise and he blushed. "Oh, nothing. I think I am going to have to pay Rarity a visit." He winked to his mare.

Muffins giggled and reached out with her magic, it shimmered green and yellow as it spread out and out and out. Twilight was in awe at her changed friend. "Is… is that… Muffins what are you doing?"

The changeling alicorn looked out the window of the castle, the shimmering field now holding the whole castle. "You remember the nice little spell Rarity gave me, to hide my horn?" She got nods from enough ponies to continue. "Well, that is it, over the whole castle. This is awesome!" She clopped her hooves together happily.

"So… they won't be able to see us? They will fall directly on the town!" Luna clopped one of her mighty hooves.

"Right, so they will fall on the town, not suspecting there are four alicorns, a changeling queen and the most clever pink pony ever to have lived, about to hit them." Gel reached a hoof out and hugged Muffins, giving her a kiss on the cheek.

Luna froze mid-rage. She blinked and lowered the hoof that was likely about to shatter a flagstone. "Okay, so we all await the attack and?"

"Take down their queen." Muffins beamed, her smile wide and showing off the fangs she now had, eyes closed and beaming ear to ear. "They won't know what hit them!"

Spike woke from his lazy daze. He was atop Cloud, sunk in the stallion so far that his back legs were pressed tight to the other pony's rump. Something had shocked him awake but he wasn't sure what. Reaching with a hoof, he carefully played with the pegasus' wings, working at the feathers. Suddenly his shaft was squeezed and he gave a happy groan.

"So you finally woke? If I didn't know any better, Glitter, I might think this was the first time you had been with anypony." Cloud looked back and his face fell. "You… you are joking?" Spike shook his head, blushing. "Well, saddle up partner, your pony ride is just beginning!" Cloud squeezed at the hefty invader within his rump, hearing a groan from the unicorn.

Something seemed to spark within both and Spike was rocking back and forward again, his body not needing anything more.

Unseen by either, dark shapes loomed in the corner of the room. One of their horns glowed, a soft green pulse that was sent into the two stallions before them. All the changelings smiled, their pearly white teeth almost glowing in the dark. This was a feast.

Lyra had just come over a little strange, she had just walked into Sweetie Drops' shop and completely forgotten what she had come for. She looked around and blinked. When her Bon Bon trotted out the unicorn's mind came to a deadly focus. She trotted forward and started to nuzzle and lick the mare.

"Lyra? What has gotten into you?" Sweetie was pulling back from Lyra, not because her special somepony was being affectionate, she was being uncommonly so. She wasn't quite sure what was happening but something smelled fishy. "Oh Lyra, come with me…" If there was one thing Sweetie Drops knew, it was how to lie. She was a plant in Ponyville, one of the few ponies to know about agent Muffins.

Beckoning the insensible and lusty unicorn into the back room, Sweetie opened her kit bag and took out one of the charms she herself wore. Draping it around Lyra's neck the unicorn suddenly blinked. "Bonny?"

"Magic, dear, please be calm." Sweetie reached back into her kit and pulled out the special glasses. Adjusting the lenses, she twisted them once, twice, then she saw the glow. The green miasma that was teasing and trying to find purchase on her and her marefriend. "By the pricking of my horn, something wicked must begone." Sweetie stepped back into the common room, drawing her little blow-gun and bringing it to her lips. The soft sound that sang from the end was the last thing the three changelings heard before their heads drooped and they thudded to the floor, asleep.

"Bonny!" Lyra was amazed, her friend had just neutralized three changelings that she hadn't even seen. "Bonny, what is going on?"

"I don't know but, Lyra, you wait here. Bon Bon's gonna rock this…"

Luna lifted her hoof and giggled. She was on the balcony and watching the town through a spy-glass. "The ponies of Ponyville are fighting back. One mare has disabled every changeling she has come across. Another has some kind of sound device that-" The sound wave that swung around and hit the castle made the whole structure tremble a moment. "Well, that!"

"Has their queen come out yet?" Celestia was standing proud, the sun was still up, it should have been down already, but she knew she would need it.

"Not yet, Tia I- Oh! There she is! She is trying to stop the sound machine! Oh, a cello bow shouldn't go there!" Luna was giggling a lot more now but when the field protecting the castle from sight dropped, she steeled herself.

"Lets do this." Gel wasn't sure he could, but he flowed out. First Celestia. He wrapped around the alicorn with as thin a covering as he could. Then Luna, then Muffins and Twilight. There was none of him left, he was practically a thin sheet on the ponies already. Twilight felt her mouth moving and relaxed. "Sorry Twisty, out of gooplicate."

The changeling blinked. "Gooplicate?" Gel nodded and she looked thoughtful. "I think I will be fine."

Wings spread and it was everything Gel could do to form up those feathers properly and save four alicorns from plunging to a bad landing. When their hooves hit the ground the fight became much more real. It was clear the Ponyville ponies were fighting for the lives. Most had come flank-to-flank, it had worked for most but the occasional one discovered that their partner was actually one of the enemy and was dragged away, their minds being ripped at to make them feel pleasure.

"Stop, now." Celestia's voice wasn't loud. It didn't need to be, there was power behind it; with a capital P.

"What is this? Three black-suited ponies come to join the ranks of my food?" The queen's voice held scorn, which she pulled off right until she got hit in the side of the head with a blast of Vinyl's music. "WHY IS EVERYTHING SO QUIET NOW?" She looked around and even her own drones giggled at her. "WHAT IS GOING ON?"

"My dear, your beat is wonderful, let me play a melody." Octavia, perched upon the stack of speakers, produced another bow from somewhere and set it to her instrument's strings. Pulling back, she launched it right at the changeling.

"My ponies, I see now I wasn't needed. It was foolish to think this of all towns needed help to defend itself." Celestia was grinning at the insulted and injured changeling queen. "Why, when this dirty rabble came to Canterlot it was two of your ponies that saved the city." There was laughter all around now, the ponies snorting and giggling, the changeling drones too unable to hold back whoops of laughter at their queen being subdued by a bunch of ponies.

"ENOUGH!" The changeling queen swung herself around, aiming her horn at Celestia. A blast of magic lanced out, burning bright and green. Only to strike what was apparently a shimmering wall of yellow-green power.

"Yup, enough!" Muffins trotted forward, reaching a hoof up to Celestia's shoulder. "Thank you, I think we have this. Gel, this filly has no power to affect us." She trotted forward, more a prance once she felt her black covering flow down into the most adorable, foal-sized gooplicate ever. "Surrender, give up your swarm. My friend over there is used to taking other queens' swarms. Oh, did I introduce you to my other friend? Mr Thunder?" Muffins' right forehoof raised a little, jiggling in the air.

"Thund-" was all the queen got out when a pegasus slammed down into her, hooves colliding with the bug-pony's cheek. Her head spun so fast that she was laid out. Thunderlane got up from where he had landed.

"Hi Thunder!" Muffins trotted forward and lifted her hoof, getting a solid clop back from the dark pegasus.

"Uh, do I know you… wait… Muffins?" Thunderlane was shocked. His friend was normally a blonde and gray pegasus, a little derpy, but in the most adorably cute way. The alicorn before him thrummed with power and exotic colors and lines. But their little act they had used on bullies together, when they were foals was undeniable. "What happened? You okay?" Thunderlane was snatched in soft gray wings.

"Of course it's me, silly." Muffins looked down at the queen that was still well out of it. "Nice hit, how fast you got your dive to now? Think you can hit one of them rainbooms?"

"Not that we don't appreciate the help, but-" Sweetie Drops was looking around, spotting Celestia and Luna, both still standing aside. Then she saw the 'new' changeling queen that had come down with them. "Can you please get them under control?"

Twisty blinked, she had been enjoying the show. "Oh, uh, sure!" She trotted up to the defeated queen and lifted a hoof up on the mare's shoulder. "Excuse me, drones?" No changeling paid her any attention. "Oops, hold a moment…"

Even Gel felt the pull, the aching need to listen and obey the mare. She was a queen, she had command. A kiss on the cheek of one of the tiny forms the goo-changeling was in broke the spell. Muffins was beaming down. "Hop up." Her back was offered and Gel smiled, jumping as hard as he could and landing, belly flop style with his hooves either side of her barrel.

"Now listen here." Twisty smiled, seeing every changeling staring at her with absolute devotion. "You have done naughty things. You don't need to live like this and I really like what you can do with your power. Forget this old fuddy duddy, come live in Canterlot and you can feast, legally." Her hoof poked at the queen under her a few times, getting an unconscious groan from the mare. "Now, stop your magic, let all the ponies out of their pods. Lets go home." There was a hundred little nods, the drones letting the poor lust-crazed ponies they had captured free of the binds and helping to gather up the unconscious members of their hive. Twisty started trotting off north, leading her new swarm.

Twilight was missing, when Gel looked around. He had left her body when Muffins declared it safe, but when he looked up he spotted her circling as she came down to land beside the half-changeling alicorn. "This will help!" Twilight's magic held out a single dark black ring, lowering it and slipping it down on the disbanded hive's queen.

Author's Note

Once again, princess power wasn't needed. Anypony can be a hero, even you

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