Author's Note

Note: This is not edited... yet.

I know this is bad as a writer but I'm too lazy at the moment. Still hope you all enjoy the chapter!

Enter The Hive

Two changelings of the five picked up Pure and supported him with their shoulders.

Pure moaned.

"You'll be fine. We'll get you back to the hive." The leader replied to his cough. He then looked at Beauty with Changer in her hooves. "You," He pointed to one of the others beside him. "Take that child away from her and check if there's anything wrong with it."

"Sir!" The changeling quickly trotted up to Beauty, who in which stepped back away from him.

"W-wait.." Pure tried to say, weakness clearly in his voice. The changeling who stalked towards Beauty didn't hear or just ignored him. Pure shouted again, a little louder this time. "Wait!" Though he still had a strain in his voice.

The changeling stopped and the leader looked at him in confusion.

Pure shook off most of the pain that the griffon from before inflicted on him. He then started to perform one of his greatest talents, acting. Pure made himself look worried and signaled the leader to come to him. The leader came up to him and he then signaled that he wanted to whisper to him with a hoof.

"What is it?" He whispered to Pure.

"Look, that baby is actually that mare's child." He whispered. "She has a condition which makes her change into a single form. She's my wife..." Pure now started to act sad. "I love her. So please don't bring it up to make her sad."

The acting seems to work as the leader turns his head to inspect Beauty. He soon turns his head back to Pure with sympathy. "That must suck. Apologies for my bad order."

Pure put on a sad smile. "Thank you."

The leader turned to the one he ordered to take Changer. "Sorry 2944, you don't need to take the child."

"B-but sir. She's a pon-"

"I'll explain later 2944!" He said. "And that's an order!"

The changeling saluted and gave Beauty her space.

The leader walked up to Beauty with a kind smile. "I am 6351, Scarred." He looked down at Changer. "Sorry for what just happened. We'll take you, your husband and your child back to the hive." He signaled the two helping Pure to start walking in the direction which was presumably towards the hive.

Beauty was confused. She would have to talk to Pure about this later. Whatever he did, it worked somehow.

It didn't take long for them to reach the hive. During most of the walk, no word was said between the seven changelings and pony. Beauty and even the injured Pure noticed that some of the changelings eyed Beauty with caution. When their leader noticed, he told them to calm down and that he would speak to the queen about it.

"We're here." Scarred told them.

The hive was a tall mountain with a series of tunnels and caves all around. Beauty watched as dozens of busy changelings flew in and out of these tunnels in a hurry. There were also some changelings wearing armor flying above and standing near the top of the tall mountain surveying the area for any danger that may come. There were also some changelings out of the many who shouted orders at groups. Beauty deemed these as the captains like Scarred.

Pure, who started to walk by himself a couple minutes ago, leaned towards his wife and said, "The hive goes deep underground too."

A shocked and amazed Beauty Heart stared at the hive and took in her husband's words.

Less than a minute later the two, along with their escorts, arrived at what seemed as the main entrance. This tunnel was the biggest out of all the others and two guards stood at each side of the entrance.

The guards grew wide-eyed and blocked the entrance when they noticed Beauty, but one chat from Scarred changed their faces to concern.

The guards stepped out of the way apologizing to Beauty much to her confusion. They let the group move on into the hive.

Once inside, Beauty looked at the hive and what it actually looked like. Black and lime green substances covered the walls and floor. After walking on the lime green ground for a couple of seconds, Beauty found that it was a hard rock of some kind.

"Honey we have to keep up with the others." Her husband said.

Beauty looked onwards and saw that they were about to be left behind. She made sure Changer was sitting safely on her back before picking up her pace. Once she did, she thought she had the right to know where they were being taken to. "Um... Scarred? Where are you taking us?"

Scarred looked back at her. "Well I don't know how your hive works but when we find a new changeling that's not connected to our hive mind, we take them to the Queen for inspection. We don't want any spies or attacks."

"I-I see..."

"After the Queen is done with you, we will go to put you, your husband and your child into our databases."

Beauty nodded.

Pure noticed his wife was a little scared. "Don't be nervous honey. The Queen will be nice."

"He's right. As long as you're not a traitor or enemy, the Queen will care for any changeling, even those out of the hive. She works hard for all of us and our lives."

"Kind of like my Princ- Queen." Beauty smiled a bit, which made Scarred smile as well.

After some pacing, Scarred stopped suddenly and told three of the other four changelings that they could take the rest of the day off. The one changeling that was let was the one that Scarred ordered to take Changer back outside.

"This is 2944, Nuc. He's my second in command. I'll have him bring you three to the Queen while I go and do some other important things." He turns to Nuc. "If they pass the examination from Queen Chrysalis and are let into the hive, bring them with you to the Hub." And then he flew off.

The word 'if' made Beauty even more nervous, and even Pure had to admit that he was a little nervous as well.

Soon they came to a fork in the cave with two tunnels. The left one had a huge set of spiral stairs going up and the right one had a spiral staircase went down.

Nuc pointed to the left stairway and signaled Pure and Beauty to follow him.

As they climbed the stairs, they passed many floors one by one.

"Are we going to the top?" Beauty whispered to herself.

Nuc heard her and said, "The top floor is the Queen's private quarters. No changelings allowed. We're going to the second highest floor, which is where the Queen's throne is placed."

"Oh."

Nuc continued while they ascended the stairs. "Like Scarred, I don't know how your Hive works. Our Hive has four main sections called Sectors. Sector 1 is at the bottom slightly underground. The lowest floor in the Sector 1 is the dungeons, where we, of course, keep the prisoners for their own reasons. All the floors above is where we store love energy and work with it to provide to the other changelings. In Sector 2 above Sector 1, which is called the Hub, is the largest and main Sector of the hive. It's where most of the work gets done."

"What work?"

"A vast majority. Like for example, when you two are done with the Queen you will be taken to the Hive's registration pod to put yourselves into our databases like Scarred told you."

Beauty nodded at this.

"Like I was saying, Sector 3, which of course is above Sector 2, is where the changelings have their home pods. You'll most likely need a bigger one since there's 3 of you. Sector three is also the place where we watch hatch the changeling eggs because the temperature there is perfect for them."

Some sunlight could be seen ahead up the spiral staircase.

"The last Sector, number 4, is at the highest point in the hive and is the royal area of the hive. It's like the castle in a city you could say. This is where most of the guards stay in the hive. And it's the Sector we're going to right now..."

The spiral staircase ended and they were finally on flat hive ground and they were now in a large hallway with the same black and lime green hard material as the walls.

Pure and Beauty looked up and around as they took in the large area. Beauty saw how some of the black ceiling was missing letting the sunlight bright up the hallway from outside.

"Follow." Nuc started his way forward and they obeyed his orders by following close behind.

He led them to the end of the hallway which had two giant doors covering the next room.

Nuc moved to the side and looked at Pure Soul and Beauty Heart. They knew that he meant that they should enter first whether or not he will follow.

Beauty turned and stared at Pure, who stared back at his wife with a smile.

"It's going to be okay," Pure told. "Just remember to bow and give your respect and show loyalty... Just like how you would act towards your Queen." Pure winked at her.

After listening to his words, Beauty smiled back and took a deep breath. "Alright. Let's go."

Pure nodded, and stepped forward to open the door.

Beauty checked her back to see a snoring Changer napping happily before following Pure inside the room.

When inside, the sight was amazing to the two as they both saw it for the first time. The walls and floor were not partially green anymore, but now all black as a changeling's carapace. The ceiling, which still had holes for sunlight, had long wooden branches that covered almost half of the ceiling. The wooden branches were all connected to a large wooden throne. And sitting on that throne, was none other than the tall Changeling Queen herself.

Pure trotted up and bowed before her.

"I was expecting you." She said in her echoed voice.

Beauty quickly followed suit and bowed beside her husband.

Queen Chrysalis got up from her throne and flew towards the three, stopping in front of them. "Rise." She said.

Pure and Beauty do as instructed and look up at Chrysalis.

"Now then..." She walked around the three like a predator circling its prey, waiting to pounce at any time. "Where are you from and how did you get here?" She asks.

Pure stood firmly. "My queen, I was born in this hive twenty-three years ago given the Drone Number 1010. I've been on the field with the Code Name Parc ever since I passed the age of ten and about four years ago I fell in love with this changeling I found that suffers from a disability."

Beauty was about to say something but kept quiet when Pure sneaked a wink to her.

"Yes. 6351 told me about this disability. You poor thing." Chrysalis stops for a second and says, "That last time I've seen anything like this was hundreds of years ago. Very rare indeed. But don't worry about it, we'll have it in the hive mind and databases in no time." She flashes a quick smile to Beauty which made her ease a bit. "Yes, 1010 you were saying...?"

"Yes." Pure continued. "As you could see on my wife's back we had a baby, and we thought it would be best to bring it back to the hive for safety."

"I see..." Chrysalis used her magic and picked up the sleeping Changer off of Beauty's back.

Beauty flinched slightly and grew nervous every second Changer was being held in the air.

Chrysalis brought Changer to her face and inspected him. She found no signs of anything wrong but one flash of green later and she raised an eyebrow.

"My queen, I know it's not normal for a child to change before it's half grown. Do you know if this is a sickness of some sort?"

"Hm..." She eyed Changer's blue pony form. "Perhaps this one is gifted. I did sense more magic in him than usual." After thinking to herself she gently placed Changer back on Beauty's back. "And which hive are you from?" Chrysalis asked Beauty.

Beauty was visibly shaking. "I-I um..."

"Is there something wrong?" Chrysalis asked.

"I think she's a bit intimidated by you, my Queen, Pure said.

"There's no need to be afraid. I take care of all my changelings... even those with disabilities." Chrysalis then starts to walk back to her throne.

"So... are we allowed in the hive?" Pure asks.

"Yes." She sits. "You may get back your original Code Number and status, and I'll get someling to help your wife and son as well."

Pure bows. "Thank you, my Queen."

"But know this..."

Pure looks up to see a dark look on Chrysalis's face.

"If I figure out anything relating to you two betraying me and this hive. I will deal with you personally." The Queen says darkly.

"Y-yes, Queen Chrysalis." Pure bows again, which makes Beauty bow as well.

"Now off with you, and leave me to my own company."

Pure takes his wife's hoof and trots out of the throne room, the door slamming shut with a loud bang.