Chapter 7: Discussion

Twilight woke up the next morning at exactly 4:30 AM was her usual however this time she woke up with a smile as today Celestia would be finding the younger alicorns response to that party the older alicorn had arranged yesterday.

The only sad part was that she couldn’t be there to see Celestia’s face when she realized what had happened. She did somewhat worry how Celestia would retaliate but whatever it was Twilight was sure it wouldn’t be anywhere near the level the purple mare had started with.

Rolling to her hooved the Alicorn stretched and popped her neck before heading towards the bathroom as she thought about yesterday’s meeting. It had gone about as well as she had expected in that there were requests for more funding from a few Divisions for this project or that one. The biggest requester was as always the EMSD Facility as they always wanted more funding for their research. Twilight told them the something she always did; she’d think about it and weigh the options compared to what else the army needed to spend money on.
However before that Twilight was going to need to talk to Chrysalis about the strange behavior of the Changelings as after the meeting one of the changelings who worked in the castle had found her and asked how she was and offered her food they had picked up from the kitchen for her. It was just getting really unnerving what with them always watching her, asking how she was and the way they sounded when speaking to her now.
Making her way out of the library to do her morning run Twilight found four changelings waiting outside of the door for her. “Uh….can I help you?” She asked.

“No we are fine Commander; we just thought you would like some company on your morning run.” They said.
Twilight slowly nodded. “Right…..sure.” She said as she started to trot to her normal place, the changeling following behind. Defiantly needed to speak to Chrysalis on this later today.

The run went as well as she had expected in that the changeling kept up with her for most of the laps before she had to order them to rest as they kept trying to push themselves to follow her and she wasn’t going to have them dropping dead on her.

They had then followed her back to the library and tried to follow her in but she told them the place was closed and for them to go home. They had nodded rather deeply and left. Shaking her head in confusion Twilight went through her exercise and had a small meal that annoying came back up a little later.
She then headed for her office to read one of her favorite books. An autographed copy of Daring Doo and The Ark of Life. On the cover was Daring Doo’s pen name and on the inside cover was her actual name along with the message “Thanks for the help Commander.”

Twilight couldn’t help smiling wide whenever she read that and looked at the cover of the tan Pegasus trekking through a desert with a dark purple unicorn following in in a familiar uniform.
Twilight had actually gotten to meet her life time hero when she lead a mission to hunt down a terrorist group that turned out to be after the artifact Daring had been after in order to use the power supposed held with in to take over the world. Twilight and the few soldiers she had been leading ran into the adventurer while exploring an ancient tomb rumored to have information on the hereabouts of the Ark.
The meeting had been immediately interrupted by the militaristic terrorists who attacked them and with the help of Twilight’s soldier they were able to escape with a few clues. After that Daring had thought she could use the help of the small army unit since the terrorists where rather trigger happy. Twilight absolutely did not squeal like a filly and dance around while saying “Yes” over and over again or blather on about how she was working with her hero and if someone said otherwise it was a blatant lie and people should not listen to rumors.
After that the unicorn and Pegasus had worked together to track down the artifact however even with the army help the terrors got them Ark first. Seems though the ancient people who created it had booby trapped it as when they opened it the magic held with in melted them all except for the adventure and soldiers as they had read the warning about not looking at the object when it was open they all shut their eyes and didn’t open them till the screaming stopped and the sound of a lid slamming shut was heard.
The only thing left of the terrorists had been their guns and empty clothing. While Daring had wanted the artifact placed in a museum she agreed the Ark was to dangerous to leave in the open so it now rested deep within an EDF warehouse in a random part of the country in a box that matched every other box in the warehouse.
After that the adventure had hitched around back to Equestria with the EDF and Twilight got to have a civilized talk with the Pegasus. After touching down the group had parted way but Twilight received an advanced copy of the book with the autograph on it. She most defiantly did not squeal like a filly, nope not at all.
The book was worn more than most of her other books as the young unicorn had read it more than any other book she owned but she had placed a preservation enchantment on it so it would not wear out any more than it already had.

After a couple of hours a knock came at the door of the office and Twilight looked up from the book. “Yes?” She called.

“Breakfast is almost ready and you got a letter from the Princess.” Spike said through the door and Twilight smiled as she marked her page. “Alright on my way up.” Twilight called back before getting up.
When she reached the dining room she found the scroll sitting where she usually sat as Spike was finishing up breakfast.

With a smirk Twilight unrolled the scroll and began to read.

Dear Twilight

I felt I should inform you I have decided to go on a small diet and have banned all cake from the castle as well as all bakeries in Canterlot from selling me cake so if you come to visit please do not bring any cake at all for the next week.

Thank you.

Sincerely Celestia

The smirk turned into a large smile and the mare couldn’t help laughing so hard she nearly fell off her chair. With Celestia dealt with that left dealing with Luna though she would be harder to attack as most of what she enjoyed were used of the sword and shooting and Twilight could not bring herself to tamper with well-maintained weapons, especially firearms. It would be a most heinous crime in her eyes and simply unforgivable.
No mater Twilight would think of something. Rolling the scroll back up Twilight decided to keep this one as she was going to hang it on the wall of her bedroom. Placing the scroll in her pocket dimension she sat and waited for breakfast to be served, though her dragon assistant was looking at her inquisitively. “Just something funny the letter reminded me of.” Twilight explained.
Spike nodded before turning back to finish dishing up their breakfast of toast, eggs and ham. It tasted rather good though not as well as she yesterdays but they can’t all taste that amazing.
Once breakfast was done Twilight excused herself to go send a message to Chrysalis that they needed to meet to discussed something important today but that there was no rush. The responds had been for them to meet around dinner time at the small café near the train station.
With that settled Twilight went about her normal day of reading reports and going through paperwork.

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The day past much like it usually did, with Twilight having her meeting with Chrysalis here in Ponyville the alicorn was staying around town. This meant her day consisted of mostly paperwork and on MNet except for a short walk around town at noon just to escape the paperwork. The ponies and changelings of Ponyville had heard of her pregnancy just like everyone else in the country had. The only good thing was that since Twilight actually knew these people their words of congratulation where not annoying to her and she actually smiled for real when talking to the because after they congratulated her and asked how she was and sometimes a few other questions the subject shifted to other topics.

After the walk it had been a small lunch and then back to work, armies didn’t run themselves after all.
Finally it was time to head out to meet up with Chrysalis at the small café, Twilight still wore her uniform as she wasn’t technically on leave. Along the road to the café Twilight past the Ditzy Doo Post Office, named after the former Ponyville mailmare. When she had been forced to retire everyone got a wakeup call on just how good as the mailmare she was and Twilight had to surprise a laugh at their faces as issues arose with the Pegasus that took over. While Ditsy Doo might have run late from time to time and the letters might have been a bit wrinkled, it always got there no matter what. Now letters and the like sometimes never arrived.
It had brought a smile to the grey Pegasus face when Twilight had informed her just how things broke down without, a sort of unplanned revenge at everyone who had treated her poorly and called her Derpy Hooves do to her issues with coordination caused by her eyes and the way she spoke.
Twilight had figured out rather quickly that the grey Pegasus was in fact very intelligence, above average actually if Twilight were to hazard a guess, but no one knew that do to how she spoke as the connection between her brain and mouth didn’t work like everyone else’s thus she spoke slowly and had to focus to make sure the words actually made it out of her mouth as her mind worked faster than her mouth.
It was that intelligence and the fact everyone wrote her off as “Derpy Hooves” that the mailmare became a curious for the EDF, though without any paperwork or official notation. Twilight used the mare to transport classified document from her library to Camp Mendez of the EDF HQ in Canterlot Castle as no one looked twice at the “slow” mare. Thus she had the perfect cover.

The mare knew what she was carrying sometimes wasn’t normal mail and had actually figured it out within a week thus proving her intelligence but even still she liked being trusted with such an important task and continues it right up till she retired as mailmare.

Much to Twilight annoyance the mailmare was nice to everyone even those who really didn’t deserve it for the names they called her and such, but the mare was always nice to them and had mastered ignoring them. Still Twilight didn’t like how some of them treated her so she did something about it. The local authorities were still looking for some crazed pony in a clown mask with a baseball bat who one night beat the ever living shit out of a few ponies and traumatized them for life. It had been a good night.
After the mare had retired and everyone realized how good they had it with her running the post office the town had come together and named the building after the Pegasus as a sort of apology for taking her for granted, Twilight still had the picture of the smiling Pegasus beside her daughter in front of the newly named post office building.

Being drawn back from her reminiscing of days gone by, by her arrival at the café Twilight gave a mental salute to the long decease Pegasus and reminded herself she needed to check in on Dinky who despite her advanced age was still quite active.

Walking into the café Twilight looked around, the place had a few other patrons but the café was never very busy at dinner so it made spotting the large changeling Queen easy. Walking over to the table Twilight smiled. “Hey Queeny, hope I’m not too late.” She said taking a seat.
The queen looked up from her drink and smiled. “Oh no not at all, I’ve only been here for a short time.” She said and a waitress found their table quickly to take Twilight drink order before heading off to let them read the menu. “So how was your day?”

Twilight smiled as she spoke. “Rather good, got a letter from Celestia that she is going on a diet.” She chuckled.
“You know you are evil right?” The Queen said trying her best to hide her smile with her menu.
“Eh I like to think of it as starting big.” Twilight said as she read the menu. “She should have known I wouldn’t pull any punches, now all that’s left is figuring things out for Luna.”
The changeling Queen nodded and a few minutes later Twilight drink arrived and the waitress took their order. They talked about their days as the Queen had a far more interesting one do to meeting with the Captain in charge of the Liston Complex about how the repairs were going after the accident a few weeks ago.
IT was after the meal and the days report had been given that the Queen finally spoke up. “So I don’t think my day was the reason we were meeting so what were you needing to talk to me about?” Chrysalis asked as she sipped her drink.

“It’s about the changelings, they’ve been acting somewhat weird around me, asking how I was or if I needed anything. They’ve been going out of their way to do it and this morning four actually joined me on a run and did all they could to keep up. Couple that with the strange way they’ve been speaking to me and it has me curious about what’s up.” Twilight explained as she finished the last of her dessert, a nice slice of Celestia’s favorite, Cloud Cake.
The queen froze for a moment and her eyes darted around the room. “Um….well…”She said and looked at the mare across from her. “Perhaps we should talk elsewhere about this.” She suggested.
Twilight blinked at this but nodded and the two of them got to their hooves and paid for the meal before heading out to walk the streets of Ponyville. “So…what’s up with the hive?” Twilight asked.
Chrysalis sighed. “It’s because of your status within the Hive.”
Twilight blinked again. “What about it, they’ve never acted this before and I know they think highly of me.”
“Yes but that was when you were an outsider.” Chrysalis said as they walked. “Twilight you are carrying a foal that is half changeling, and not just any changeling but half Queen.” She said and looked at the mare. “Basically you are carrying a changeling princess and that mixed with a few other things means you are now a queen as far as the hive is concerned and as such the hive is adjusting to having two queen as it hasn’t had two since I took my place as queen after my mother’s passing and with you carrying the hives future the drones are becoming highly protective of you and desire to ensure you are taken care of at all times.”
Twilight blinked. “So….I’m becoming a Changeling Queen?” She asked slowly.
“No, you are a changeling queen as far as the hive is concerned.” Chrysalis Said matter of factly.
Twilight blinked and looked a there. “So I’m not going to end up looking like you?” She asked. “Don’t get me wrong you look great and all but I kind of like my own body.”
Chrysalis laughed at this as they walked down the street. “No you are not going to end up looking like me.” She said. “You are stuck with that body of yours for all eternity.” She said with a smile.
Twilight tilted her head at the way the queen said that last bit and she watched the Changeling out the corner of her eyes. “So you said it was because I’m carrying a changeling queen that they see me as another queen of the hive.” The Queen nodded. “What are the other reasons?”
Chrysalis missed a step.’ What do you mean?” She asked a bit quickly.
“You said that because I’m carrying a Changeling Queen and a few other reasons that the hive now views me as a queen.” Twilight said. “What other reasons?”
The looked away from the alicorn beside her as they walked and hummed for a moment as she thought quickly. “No other reason, I misspoke.” She said still not looking at Twilight.
Twilight narrowed her eyes; her bullshit meter was way in the read. “Queeny, you know I can make you tell me.”
The queen looked around for an avenue of escape but it would be pointless at the mare could run faster than her do to her augmentation, not to mention teleport. Sighing the queen came to a stop and looked at her hooves. “Well…there are a couple of other things that fact or about how the hive sees you.” She said as she drew a little circle in the dirt with a hoof.

Twilight stopped and looked at her and gestured with a hoof. “Go on.”
“Well…you see….it’s not just that your foal is of Queen’s blood that is only about a fourth of the reason.” She said still not looking at the mare. “The other factors sort of play a bigger role in the level of devotion the hive has.”
Twilight sighed and rolled her eyes. “Queeny just spit it our already.”
Chrysalis took several deep breaths. “It also has to do with both the relationship and feels held by the current queen of the hive.” She said.

Twilight blinked. “What does that mean?” Twilight faced the queen now.
The Changeling took sever deep breaths again and appeared to be working herself up to something. Glancing around for another avenue of escape one last time she faced Twilight. “Well…it’s…um….well…..I…..sort of….love you…..”She said.

“YES FINALLY!!!”

Both the alicorn and the Changeling queen looked around as they heard someone shout rather loudly.
In the old clock tower a pink alicorn had dropped below the window, her hoof shoved in her mouth as she had not meant to shout that loudly. She had taken her daughter's advice and took a vacation, which mostly consisted of spying on a particle member of her family which most wouldn’t really see as a vacation but she was free to spend it how she wanted. And boy was she glad she did take this vacation otherwise she’d have missed this moment.
After a few second the Princess of Love peeked over the window sill and brought the binoculars back up to her eyes as her magic raised the long range listing device she had borrowed from the Crystal guard supply room as she adjusted the head set so she could hear again.
After finding no sign of who had shouted Twilight looked back at the Changeling queen. “You what?” She asked not entirely sure she had heard correctly.

Chrysalis sighed. “I said I’m in love with you, have been for a long time.” She said blushing a bit as she looked back down at her hooves.

Twilight sat on her haunches as she processed this information. After a few minutes she looked at the queen. “You’re kidding right?”

The Queen looked up and blinked. “No…why would I joke about something like this?”

“Because look at me.” Twilight raised her arms in the air and waved them. “Most of my body is scared all to hello, my eyes, ears and legs are all machine as is part of my brain and lets not even get started on the mental issues and what I find fun.” She said and dropped her hooves narrowing her eyes. “I’m a monster and nobody loves monsters.”

The Queen sighed. “You aren’t…well…ok you are.” Chrysalis said when Twilight growled at her denial of the facts. “But you see how the hives work is queens can only have drones, unless there is an emotional connection to their partner and changeling queen courtship is based on conquest so to speak.” She explained. “What queens find attractive in mates is strength of will, ability to protect the hive and the ability to stand up to them.” She said and looked at the alicorn. “You have far surpassed all of that the day you got me to surrender and every time you have dealt with those who were a danger to the hive. Not to mention every other example of your strength of will as you never back down and I think it’s clear you have not just matched me but utterly dominated me to the point there almost isn’t anything I wouldn’t do if told. In short you conquered not only the hive but my heart as well.” The queen said rather quickly, either out of embarrassment or to try and calm the alicorn before her.

Twilight blinked and opened her mouth before closing it. She did this several time as her mind tried to processes this information. She had never actually learned about changeling queen courtship as the drones it worked much the same as everyone else should they desire a special someone. Once more she had made a huge oversight when it came to her second in command.

The mare switched to biped mode and scrubbed her fingers though her mane. “Gah….really….you mean all this time?” She asked looking at the queen who nodded. “Why didn’t you tell me?”
“Well…at first it was because I would outlive you since you were a normal pony and….I didn’t want to have to go through the pain of losing you if things went anywhere….after you became an alicorn I wanted to…but…well….I was scared….”She said looking down. “While you may see me as a close friend the fact is I’m not a pony and you have never shown any interest in anything as the only reason we even have the relationship we have now is because you couldn’t risk anyone else getting close.”

Twilight rubbed her temples as she felt a headache coming on. “Ok…that makes sense…..”She said and looked at the queen. “I’ll be honest, I never actually really thought about this entirely ok?” She said gesture between the two of them. “I was focused on everything around me and making sure everyone was safe and saw this as just something between friends….I had no idea it meant more to you.” She said and sighed looking at her steel hooves.
Her mind raced as she tried to make sense of all she had just learned. She was a soldier; she knew how to handle everything that happens on the battlefield as well as how to deal with politics. But none of that gave her any help in handling this situation.
Looking back at the queen who just stood there calmly waiting to be noticed. “Twilight, I know you never thought of things that way, I came to terms with that a long time ago, fact is you view the world differently than others.” She said. “I’m fine with how things are as there is no way I can make you do anything you didn’t want to.”

Twilight sighed and looked at the queen. “Look….this is going to change things, at least for me, not only am I pregnant I just found out your feelings towards me.” She said and shook her head. “Things can’t just go back to how they were.” The queen flinched. “So….I guess I’m willing to…I don’t know…try this if you are willing to put up with it all.” Twilight said.

The Queen smiled. ”Really?”

Twilight nodded “yes, but I’m in charge of this relationship.” She said firmly.
The Queen nodded. “I think we established that’s how it’s always been.” She said with a chuckle.

Sighing twilight started walking again. “Well come on.” She said. “Gods I wish I could drink right now, I’d get so black out drunk id lose a week.” She said as Chrysalis walked beside her.
“Is it really that bad?” the queen asked.

“How the fuck should I know, I know battlefields, not romantic relationships, this is all a huge unknown to me and you know how I feel about them.’ Twilight grumbled.

The Queen chuckled again. “I know but I’m sure this won’t be so bad and I don’t think things will really change, well not completely, I’m still you second in command and will speak up when I think you are doing something wrong and it’s not like I’m going to act really any different around you, I still have my pride as Queen of the changelings and second in command of the EDF.” She said.

“Yeah yeah….we will see how this works out.” Twilight said as the two of them headed off back towards the library as there wasn’t anything that needed to be talked about anymore tonight and Twilight just wanted to collapse into her bead to sleep and deal with this in the morning.

Why did becoming an alicorn have to make life so complicated for her? She was a soldier; she shouldn’t have to deal with all of this!

Author's Note

So I had to go through a lot to upload this. Had to make it a draft in mu Emil on thenlap top tjrn copy it from that on my phone and paste it as the laptop could t save it to FiM. That's why it looks the way to does as it was loaded from mu cell phone. I did mu best to put the paragraphs breaks but I can see all of the text on the phone.

Anyways Chrysalis confessed FINALLY!

and we got to hear ehst happened to a fandom favorite pony in EDF equestria.