"Look, I have a deal with Chrysalis. Just take me to her and we can sort this out!" Braeburn was pleading with his captors.

"Why would our queen make deals with ponies? You are trying to trick us!" Chirp kept marching, carrying the pony along. "Maybe I should goop your head like I did your legs, that way you won't talk so much?"

Struggling was useless, of course. Brae gave a sigh. "Can't you at least find a changeling who knows about our deal?" He knew the hive well enough, he had been coming here for a while now. "I have a deal with Chrysalis, I come and give some love for a while, and you leave me alone to run my ranch."

Chirp stared at the pony and put them down beside the pods (where other ponies were floating, providing energy to the hive). "Okay pony. I will go get my Queen, and she is going to come down and do horrible things to you." Chirp had had enough. Leaving Braeburn partially glued to the floor, they buzzed their wings and took off.

"Finally!" Braeburn's voice echoed a little, and he realized he was all alone in the chamber. "Okay, this place is spooky…"

"You don't know the half of it. Sometimes all I have to talk to are the pods!"

Braeburn spun around and saw the strangest thing. "Who are you?" Standing behind the pod he was glued beside what looked like a pony completely covered in slime. "Are you okay?"

"Yup! You don't look to be doing so well, though." Shifting closer to the trapped pony, the mass of goop lifted a hoof to rub his cheek. "You aren't thinking nice things."

"Uh… well I am trapped in a changeling hive." Braeburn wasn't sure why he was blushing, the mare seemed nice, but wasn't actually flirting—or was she? "When did they get you? And why aren't you in a pod?"

"Me?" Lifting the hoof up again, the goo pony began to stroke at Braeburn's cheek, over and over. "They never got me, I just sort of woke up down here…" She pressed her hoof more firmly against the stallion's face, smearing herself around on his cheeks and mouth.

Brae tried to reply, but the goop around his face had effectively sealed his lips closed. He stared at the goo pony now as it dawned on him that he couldn't actually see a pony inside the stuff. He tried to squirm, but she moved forward, rubbing every bit of exposed flesh with her hooves, painting him into a more fixed position.

"There, now you aren't making so much noise—I don't like noise." The goo pony lifted a hoof to her own chin and tapped it. "I know! Ponies in here need to be in pods, I can do that for you." She moved forward, her body pressing against Braeburn's and flowing around him.

The sight of the goop wrapping around his body scared Braeburn at first, but as more of her flowed around him, he noticed that he was being forced to curl up into a tight ball. Restrained still, fluid started to flood in around him, pouring into his nose. Instinct screamed to hold his breath, but after nearly five minutes in the goopy liquid he gave in. Blinking, Braeburn realized the stuff wasn't drowning him.

"Perfect. Now you have your own special little pod!" Trotting off to the back of the cave, the goo pony's big belly swayed a little under her with the curled up pony inside. Instinct made her reach to the pony's mind, a gentle nudge pushing him off into a dream.

"Okay, so where is this pony?" Chrysalis stalked into the newest pod room. "Are you sure they said their name was Braeburn? You dolt, we have a deal…" Her emotions warmed a little just at the thought of the only pony she actually liked. She had a date with him next week, after all.

"He… he said that was his name. He must have escaped, my Queen!" Chirp looked around in a panic.

Neither changeling saw the goo pony curled up in the darkest part of the cave, one of her hooves gently rubbing her transparent belly.

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