Twilight struggled. The blood was rushing to her head, making it hard to focus, but a pattern in the goop on the floor of the hive caught her attention.

"Twilight Sparkle, Princess of Friendship." Chrysalis practically purred as she walked around Twi—mare hanging by her back legs from the low ceiling—her green magic levitated a short whip up. "How is your magic, little drone?"

"I'm not a drone!" Twilight closed her eyes and tried to look away from the swirling pattern before her snout. "If I could teleport…" The crack of the whip, expertly placed to draw a single welt of glowing green magic across her mound, drew a cry that devolved into a moan. "W-W-Why can't I use my magic?"

A hoof filled with holes grabbed hold of Twilight's snout, tilting her head away from the swirling, glowing pattern. "Because, my drone, this whip steals it." Chrysalis pressed her snout down, roughly kissing the alicorn. "Don't you just want to relax, to stare into the pool as you feel your mind weakening?"

Even with her eyes closed, Twilight could see the glow of the goop, it seemed to flow through her eyelids and into her brain like honey. "What is happening? My back legs feel… odd." She wanted to turn her head, to look up at her back end. Instead, she opened her eyes and felt more of the honey pour into her head.

"You are turning into a drone, mindless, simple, part of my hive." Chrysalis drew back the whip with her magic and lashed again, this time scoring a direct hit across the inverted pony's nipple. "No more need to think, no more worries about all your ponies. I will do your thinking for you now."

"N-N-No… I… oh Celestia…" Twilight was staring now, deep into that swirly pattern. She smiled, leaking drool from her snout. "I… I feel good."

"Of course you feel good, you are becoming better. Can't you feel as the conversion passes your hips, doing away with that pretty tail. You will have a nice tail-fin, Twilight-drone."

"D-Drone? Do I want to be a drone?" Twilight reached a hoof down toward the gunk before her eyes, mere inches from actually touching it. She felt an odd hardness close over her belly as the chitin started to grow stiffer, forming a shell around the pony.

The lash came again, hitting Twilight's horn and pulling a screaming moan from her. "Of course you want to be a drone, just let the programming in, let your mind grow still and let mine in." Chrysalis knew the mare wasn't going to be ready for her yet. "Look, you are more changeling than pony now. You have pretty wings, my drone."

"Drone…" Twilight's lips curled into a smile. The black, hard chitin worked over her shoulders and down her forelegs. "I want… I want to be a drone…"

"Of course you do, now, relax and let me in." Chrysalis stepped in, pressing her own jagged horn to the purple one, as it curved and turned black.

The spiral stopped, but drone didn't care. She felt her Queen in her head. With no thought of her own, she curled around, using her buzzing wings to lift her. It took two bites of her long, sharp fangs to break free, the moment she did, she rushed for Chrysalis. "Thank you..."

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