Chrysalis sat bored upon her throne. Nothing amazing. Her throne is where she sat most of the day, planning evil plots and thinking over her life. Many years of doing the same thing over and over had gotten to her. She sighed as she took the last remaining of twenty changelings in her magic. She looked ahead at her target, a flimsy dart board, taking a deep breath. Sticking out her tongue, she lay the changeling straight in the air. She winced her eyes, readying her final throw.

"Your highness!" Boomed a guard changeling, another matching his size and mass as they burst in through the door.

The clang of the door against the wall startled Chrysalis, scaring her into making her throw. The changeling closed his eyes, preparing for impact. Chrysalis gasped, watching as he just missed the board. The changeling remained stuck in the wall, his horn had impaled it. She turned a bemused look to the changelings who had entered.

"You couldn't have picked a better time to interrupt me?" She asked, the annoyance clear in her voice as she leaned a head onto a hoof on the armrest.

The changelings bowed their heads before their queen. "We apologize, your highness."

"Now, what have you come to bug me about?" She snarled before having a small chuckle at her own pun.

"It's the hive your majesty" Said one of the changelings.

"We have suspicions they're rebelling." Continued the other.

Chrysalis raised a brow. "Rebelling?" She asked with a small smile as she stood from her throne. Slowly she made her way to the pair of changelings before her, their larger, muscular size even no match to Chrysalis as she towered a whole foot above them.

"Yes, Queen Chrysalis..." Gulped the left one.

"Hmmm...." Chrysalis smirked. "My plan is working smoothly so far.", the changeling monarch thought to herself as she stepped past them.

She left her throne room and into the dark hall, dimly lit by torches burning green and blue flames. She turned right down the hall. She sighed a little, feeling something missing. She lowered her head to her left slightly.

"I love you, mommy!" She remembered he would say as they were never separated. He was always at her side. She missed him dearly. She truly loved her son. She wished she didn't have to send them off to be with the ponies, but it was either that plan or scrap by with whatever towns they could find to raid. She inwardly sighed.

"I love you too..." Chrysalis whispered to herself as she entered the balcony that looked over the main hall.

There was the loud ruckus of changelings hollering and arguing among themselves, at least until she came into view.

"There she is!" She heard a large drone floating above the rest of the changelings yell.

"We've been starving for too long!" Another shouted.

"How can we trust her when she failed last time?!" Said another.

Chrysalis took a deep breath. "My loyal subjects!"

All went quiet and all heads turned to face Chrysalis.

"I know very well my last attempt to feed you all ended in failure, but that was then! This is now! We knew little of the ponies then, what they were and weren't capable of! Now with experience, we have hope we'll succeed this time, as plans have been underway since yesterday! This time it wasn't a full on assault. I've gone for a more stealthy, fool proof plan that can't POSSIBLY fail!"

"And where is the prince?!" Asked the floating changeling. "He hasn't been seen!"

Chrysalis smiled. "I assure you, Night Winger is in good hooves."

"But where is he?!"

Chrysalis took a deep breath, fearing how her subjects may react to her next answer. "He's with his father. Shining Armor."

Gasps were heard and everything went silent as many jaws hit the floor.

"Now, you may be wondering why would I send my own son to be with our enemy? Well, with said experience as mentioned before, those ponies are a bunch of mushy, love factories! And since the princess of love happens to be Shining's wife, Night Winger is probably being over fed as we speak."

"At least HE gets love!" Muttered one of the many changelings.

"Precisely. I will make periodic visits, since this is about my son, there will,be no fighting between us. But I'll take the majority of what he was fed, leaving him with what he really needs, and there should be more than enough for all of you upon return!" Chrysalis cheered, a hoof high in the air, much like Luna would have after saying "The fun has been doubled!"

Many of the changeling whooped, hollered and cheered they might finally be fed, and their love famine would be brought to an end. Chrysalis smiled upon her subjects. She had a good feeling she'd be successful this time.

"But isn't he supposed to lead us when you cease to? How can he, when he's with ponies?! How long is he going to stay there?!"

"Until the next phase of the plan." Chrysalis smirked. "Which shall be soon enough."

Some of the changelings remained unsure of this idea, and some were all for it, but there were some who were flat out against it.

Chrysalis smiled and made her way to her throne room balcony. She looked up out to the sky. Although the plan seemed fail proof, there were large risks that came with it. Risks she didn't want to think of. Besides, she had a son to see.

She sparked her horn, focusing as hard as she could to teleport at least halfway back to Equestria and out of the badlands.

Author's Note

So much talk about what's already happening, but what's to happen next? What does Chrysalis have planned? Will Night Winger become fat as he last said? Will Chrysalis even succeed? Who knows? Well, I know I do! And let me tell ya...its hard to not give any spoilers in all of this XD

I also noticed this story gets featured with every update. The feature itself I don't care about, it just lets me know you guys have been enjoying this story and I thank you all for sticking with it and reading it! I hope you'll stick around for longer to see the end!