I felt like watching the world burn today...or at least the part that was inhabited by insect bitch, I had finally gotten somewhere, I had someone to love for the rest of my eternity, but chrysalis took that away...along with everything else I even had a chance of being attached to in this world...nothing mattered anymore If she was dead I would be happy.

I called my sword to me....only to be greeted with nothing, I tried again...still nothing...no matter Ill find it later.

Chrysalis POV

I had to hand it to myself, my new plan had worked, The only real outlier was that alicorn Twilight grew in a lab, but i had already proven her to be insignificant compared to my power. I placed her sword in a cuccoon next to the weapons of all of the foes I had defeated on my quest to domination, i placed It right next to the greatsword of Luna and the morning star of Celestia, it softly glowed blue in its little glob. I watched for a few seconds as the many runes and images softly pulsed, then I saw it chPunge to a sicly toxic green, then to a deep red, then soon to a deep pulsing black and purple. I averted my eyes...for some reason it scared me, then it pointed it's hilt west and pressed against the chamber walls tightly. It seemed to alter it's angle as if it was trying to get somewhere...then it hit me...She was flying this way. No matter, she would crumple under my might. I decided to Give my little princesses turned slaves a hard time for it.

"It seems your precious little lab rat is coming to rescue you...how sweet...Totally futile, but a nice thing to try before she to becomes a helpless little slave such as yourselves... or maybe she'll be a broodmare like your pitiful little group will be once I am done with you." I could see the anger beginning to rise in the 4 I had not cuccooned, the other 5 were well on their way to being nothing more than mindless drones, Celestia Spoke first.

"Youre nithing more than a Mon...AHHHHHGHHH" The magic restrictors and their cuffs were laced with a pain spell that I could trigger at any moment, I felt only bliss when Celestia felt the agony of the spell.

"She'll KIck your sorry ASS!!" Twilight's little verbal rebellion ceased as I activated the spell, she fell in a twitching heap after I released it."

"Oh... Nothing from the one closest to the little mutant rat? I thought You loved her, so much so that you married her in law only 2 days before I and my lings had replaced all of you. Still nothing? I see, 'show no weakness because my lover wouldn't? Too bad, you also get a pain spell." I activated it and saw Luna desperately try to hold her little stoic poise, she eventually gave in and she too fell in agony as I simply watched the little thing squirm in pain on the dirty floor, nude and helpless like her little posse.

Nova Pov

I landed at the hive and immediately blasted the guards into crispy dust, I kicked the door open and began going up, ignoring the weird and occasionally changing structure in favor of making my own doors, I heard a changeling scream at me with one of their weird little guns pointed at me.

"STAND DOWN NOW,"

"Or what..."

"WE WILL SHOOT" the changeling was obviously internally shitting itself... So I grabbed it by the neck and lifted the dainty little bug up without even trying.

"Suit yourselves" I squeezed harder and harder until I heard a sickening crack, the changeling was obviously dead but I wanted to drive the point home So I adjusted my grip to its head and crushed it into gooey green mush right in fromt of all the others. They all immediately started firing and I ignored all of it, by the time I was done nothing but splattered entrails and broken chitin remained, I grabbed one of their guns and scrounged some ammo from the rest and continued on paying no heed to the many changelings running in fear or trying to kill me.

Chrysalis Pov

"It seems the lab rat has entered...and killed a whole platoon of changelings...no matter, I have millions more waiting...Guards, prepare the slaves a front row seat for the fight, I wnat them to see every last drop of blood spilled on this day..."

"I had barely gotten a glimpse of the little rat before she killed the ling I was looking through, she seemed different, at first I thought I was staring down Nightmare Moon herself but I quicky saw the differences, the firey hair, glowing eyes, and a face of cold determination rather than Nightmare's signature psychotic grin...it almost scared me...but I had seen worse.

Ripping through droves of changelings was the therapy session I needed, every time I stabbed, sawed or ripped through another one I felt a bit more confidence that I could win, My limbs were caked in blood from the scores of bugs I had killed and I was still ripping through more. I decided to use a bit of dark magic to summon a sword from....somewhere....It was huge for a normal pony...but to me It was perfect, the tip of the blade had a large harpoon esque tip facing backwards, the surface was covered in deep red glowing runes and I could feel dark magic almost literally oozing from it, I had no Idea how I figured out how to do that but at the moment it was half past stab and I was running late for an appointment with bloodshed.

About 10 minutes later I kicked in the throne room door and saw chrysalis staring at me from across the room, weapon drawn and magic at the ready.

" Hello Nova...nice to see you again...come back for more of a beating? How lewd...but I will not dissapoint, soon you will be just another slave destined to do nothing more tha..WHAM!!

" I had Punched her in the face mid monologue, and boy did it feel good.

"Well then" Chrysalis said simply before sending a magic beam towards me, I dodged in kind and pulled the sword out of my magic in favor of wielding it with something I had a better understanding of using, chrysalis teleported herself a weapon an. Somehow hovered up despite the odd wings, I flapped into the air and held a hover across the room...waiting for any indication of her next move, she flinched her head and shot another spell at me, I put up a hasty shield, it barely held back the blast and I retaliated, I sent a blast at her while I dove across the room and tried to skewer her through the heart, I the blade of the sword sailed through her shield and sliced nothing but air as she dodged backwards and to my left.

Soon the dogfighting began, both of us zipping around the room throwing spells and slashes, soon the fight went outside and the real fight began...

Chrysalis sent a HUGE Beam my direction I dropped away just before it hit and I watched as the blast put a crater in the mountain after punching through the wall and another tower, I responded by letting loose a spell that sent a massive shotgun blast of tiny crystaline shards at her, I was rewarded with a few hitting a shield and most missing.

" WHAT THE HELL DOES IT TAKE TO KILL YOU!?" I shouted hefore I dove in and took amother slash, the sword connected and ripped a thin green line across Chrysalis's midsection, She backed off a bit and I prepared for another hit, It never came...instead I felt the familliar pang of something grabbing at my mind...the slight whisper I had in the forest soon became a loud and commanding voice, screaming in my head. I saw a cloud of magic corcling my head before I managed to block it out, I dove from the hole in the wall and shot off a machine gun burst of raw magic shots, each of them causing a small explosion upon hitting the tower, I saw chrysalis fly out flanked by changelings, several of which were about the size of a full grown grizzly bear. I dove past and blasted away the cuccoon around the sword, and called it to my hand, as soon as I touched it several bolts of electricity arked to it as I positioned it in my other hand and dove back outside carefully dodging the changeling platoon trying to hit me with magic.

Twilight POV

I was forced to stare out on the battle, at first it started slow...but it was soon raging out of control and I saw magic beginning to punch holes in the walls, One of chrysalis's shots missed me by only a few hooves and ended up melting a hoke in the wall. I was sincerely hoping that Nova had the strength to defeat her...at this point I didn't care if she was killed, even though I dispised killing...I had seen enough in the past few months for me to accept it. If she was still alive...I doubt she wluld ever dare look at anopony the wrong way ever again...

Luna POV

We could only watch as our dear Nova dueled with the evil queen... At least her anger had a valid reason to manifest, the dark magic had given her a body and abilities much like ours over a millenium ago, She hath also summoned a dark weapon of tartarus we had summoned a crecent blade, she wielded a longsword. We could do nothing but watch and hope that she could win...and put a gory end to this horror, such that we may have a warriors wedding ceremony atop the corpses of our enemies. We saw the first of soon to be many changeling corpses crash into the throne room through the now very pitted and burned roof.

I hacked changeling qfter changeling to goey chunks, but for every one I killed a dozen more took its place, even with two swords and magic, my dent in their numbers was like a 22 cal pistol to a tank's armor....basically nonexistent. Within her living armor chrysalis sat back and quietly sent orders to kill me...cheap move bitch. I dove through the numbers and grabbed for the one in control, desperately clawing through the seething pointy mass of bug horses, but as before I could barely stave off the millions of things trying to keep me back, so I began to do something twilight would probably freak out about...I poured magic into my horns and let it accumulate between them in a sparking black mass...then I let all hell break loose, in an instant the beam vaporized a hole in the mass, barely large enough to see through...but it gave me enough time to teleport right up in chrysalis's face...immediately after I grabbed her with my magic and teleported away from the swarm and bolted for the edge of the city, once far enough away I began charging my final stand...I formed up a tiny shield with as much magic as I could muster and dumped in plasma...the shield began to glow a soft red...then orange...then incandescent white...then it became hard to look at...I used the last bit of magic I had to teleport away....

An earth shattering shockwave shook the city, in the distance a huge expanding cloud of superheated gas filled the view and dissapated, a tiny green speck still sitting where it was just prior to the explosion, the blast had failed...chrysalis survived...somehow...and I was exhausted... Crap...

"Come on!....How in the fuck do you survive that!?
A voice replied in my head...it was smug.

"Magic....bitch."

"Well fuck you too..."

"Gladly"

I felt a flash of magic behind me and immediately realised that chrysalis was standing behind me...

"I see you've come to gloat..."

"No...just mind control you like I did shining armor last time I tried to take over I suppose there will be no resistance?"

"Just my broken ass brain."

"Perfect..." she spun me around and ...licked? My face amd then made a snide comment before locking horns with me and activating some kind of spell.

"Ahhh. The taste of defeat"

I was floating...then I felt a pitted hand touch my shoulder...

"Nice brain you have here...very....Distant, but robust...with just a touch of caring, have a good look before it gets locked away forever..."

"Id like to see you try"

I opened my eyes My mind or ar least the part I was in now, resembled a spacecraft of some variety...a large control panel sat squarely in the middle of the room, several things seemed to be patched into it. It was surrounded by a massive segmented window looking out across a vast plain of what I would assume would be my personality and memories...as well as everything else, all of it lazily drifting around a small star-esque object in the distance. Chrysalis simply stared.

"I have never seen a mind organized like this...ponies'.minds are usually very simple...thoughts of ther talent and how to do it...life goals, and dreamlike thoughts floating around in a relatively ordered manner...yours....how?... How do you stand such a thing?...the other princesses and mine are the only thing I could compare the complexity to...it is almost hard to look at...but no matter a brain is a brain... And I came here to make you nothing more than a mindless slave." she punched her fist into the control panel and immediately a green tendril-like goo began to spread across the massive and very analog looking control panel, as soon as it was finished spreading it formed a seat for chrysalis to sit in, and a helmet linked into the mass. Immediately I heard an alert...then it silenced and was replaced by an eerie pulsing fleshy noise.

"Before I am trapped...id like ro ask something..."

"Since' you're basically a prisoner anyway...I see no reason to deny it."

"How the hell does this work?"

"This place is your, psyche. An expansive but yet infinitely small magic plane...within it your mind manifests and forms physical objects from untainted magic...your brain may be a box of fat with wires like a computer, but this is the screen."

"Thanks for clearing that up....soooo...how much longer..."

"About 10 minutes out there, in here it will be about double... It would be faster if only your mind was weaker"

"Well thanks for that...but I don't think It's gonna end up like that, I picked up a large wrench from the corner and quietly walked over to the one invading...and swung.

A.sickening smash echoed through the cabin and I suddenly felt as if I was being dragged by the mind...somewhere

Soon I returned to the real world and saw chrysalis stunned in front of me, I picked up my sword and ran it into her abdomen...the large blade smattered with green protruding from her back.

"..,how..,"

"My brain my rules...bitch" I gripped harder on voyager before I spoke again.

"See you in tartarus..." I gave the sword a hard twist and jerked it from her body...she coughed up blood onto me, slumped over and fell back, her body flopped onto the ground like a sack of fleshy potatoes, she twitched for a few moments and then life finally left her. I used the back of my sword to snap off the horn at the base, I grabbed it and looped it into the waistband of my, now quite ruined pants, the blood and heat as well as the odd change in size and proportion had done a number on them.

I looked around... Changelings simply stood frozen in place...then They began to look around like idiots before they all took to the sky...several remained, they simply disguised themselves and quietly left.

I found the bombed out and badly burned throne room about 3 minutes later, chrysalis's weapons dropped near the giant hole in the southern wall, I walked over to the cuccoons strewn across the remaining wall, and began slicing them opem with the swords...Twilight's friends rolled out coughing and heaving... As well as about 20 other high ranking officials and Shining armor. Celestia, Luna, Cadence, and Twilight were chained to some chairs facing one of the gaping holes, all of them had several restrictor rings latched onto their horns, I started with luna and worked my way down the row, breaking the cuffs and removing the restrictors,

"....you won...what became of chrysalis?" Celestia asked first...most lkely the question on everyone's mind.

"Dead...I ran a sword through her..."

"It would have been better if she could be reformed...but I understand your choice"

"You look terrible... Are you okay?"

"Yeah... Most of these are finishing healing...the scars....they're staying. Twilight came to her senses and then began to ask questions

"...Nova....you won?...how? "

"Confuision...and a big knife" ...I held up the swords for effect, both of which were still covered in gore".

"Wait...YOU KILLED HER!? What could have possibly....oh....nevermind....i..think it's probably for the better...."

"Yeah...I know you despise killing and all, but she's already killed too many so I gave her the death penalty.. It was only fair."

"Thanks...and Sorry...for everything...I...should never have done that to you to bring you here..."

"I also apologise...my treatment of you was totally unacceptable...I really have no idea what compelled me to sentence you to that punishment." Celestia apologised with a very solemn look plastered on her face.

" I still resent you for what you did...but at least it gave me opportunities and abilities I could only have dreamed of...so thanks for that at least, although I will ask you to FUCKING THINK YOU MORONS!.....that felt good."

I looked at myself...I was still in my Nightmare form...so I let it drop and I returned to normal within a few minutes..., I checked my visor and was pleased to see that my wounds had healed...So I began getting the rest of the ponies back on their hooves,

Several hours later, it was the dead of night, we had torches and the equestrian equivalent of road flares lining the streets among the remaining changeling architecture, we had found many of the captured ponies in the canterlot sublevels, there were several hundred that had completed transformation into changelings, and almost 20,000 missing...but at least the majority of the population of about half a million was still alive and mostly intact.

Author's Note

I really like playing around with this universe and characters so I am going to do a spinoff/sequel thing to this story, I have a few ideas but nothing concrete, any suggestions are welcome.