My Little Pony From One World To Another And Back! by NickClash BCommander

"Alright, punks! Time's up!" a very tough-looking and mean Changeling guard who was wearing black and red armor and appeared to be the leader of the group of Changeling guards that had been sent to check on the humans' progress on the weapons said as he and 14 other Changeling guards, who looked like they hadn't slept for awhile entered the room with the party of 12 humans.

"Really? It's that time already? Time really does fly when you're busy creating weapons for you and your queen!" Ned spoke.

"Enough chit-chat! Do you have the weapons ready like you promised us or not?" the Changeling guard demanded.

"Of course! We just finished them a short while ago Mr...Uh-" John replied.

"The name's Pound, one of the most powerful and respected figures in the entire Changeling Hive next to the queen herself and you will know and refer to me only as such, understand?!" the now-identified leader of the Changeling guards yelled.

John and the other humans nodded. "Hey, Pound! You look even stronger and more intimidating than me!" Michael said, wanting to get underneath Pound's skin a little before he, Ned and the others put Operation: Fly Trap into action. "Have you ever thought of opening your own gym or becoming a professional wrestler or-"

"Silence!" Pound warned, which caused Michael to go silent. "Stop saying stupid things and asking just as equally stupid questions! Show us the weapons you've made at once or those two brats of yours will be executed immediately!"

"Very well. Please follow me," Ned instructed as he led Pound and the other Changeling guards to a metal table at the back of the room where all the guns laid seemingly finished and ready to go.

Mr. Pound and the other Changeling guards all paused for few seconds as they stared at the strange and unfamiliar weapons with shock and wonder before Pound grinned and turned to his fellow Changeling guards and told them to grab the guns and make their way out. "Yes, Mr. Pound," another Changeling guard agreed.

"Wait!" Gary shouted at Pound.

"What is it now?!" Pound demanded.

"You can't go now! At least not yet!" Alice spoke.

"And why not?" Pound questioned.

"Because you, Chrysalis and The Hive are now so close to conquering Equestria! You should celebrate! I mean how could you not wanna celebrate your soon-to-be guaranteed victory over the princesses and the kingdom of Equestria?!" Stan told Pound.

"We will celebrate later," Pound replied. "We must deliver the weapons to the queen and discuss how we will invade Equestria! We've already spent too much time here wasting time with all you filthy apes as it is! We can't stay here with you any longer!"

"Not even to listen to some nice music real quick?" Ned asked. "Come on, Pound! Just 1 or two minutes of enjoying yourselves and listening to some music before you're on your way! The queen will never know."

"I said no!" Pound refused, but stopped himself when he saw the looks on all the other Changeling guards' faces.

"Sorry, Mr. Pound, but he has a point! Unlike you, we've been up and about on guard duty for nearly 2 days straight!" one of the other Changeling guards argued.

"Yeah! Ever since then, we haven't gotten a chance to rest, especially after the 12 humans were brought here to The Hive!" another Changeling guard agreed.

"At this point, even doing nothing but listening to some music for a minute or two would be very appreciated. It would give our bodies some time to relax and regain our energy," a third Changeling guard added. "Otherwise, I refuse to do anything else!"

"Arrgghhh! I can't believe this!" Pound muttered in defeat. "Fine! We'll take a short 5-minute break, but that's it!

The other Changeling guards all cheered happily.

Pound then turned his attention back to Ned and warned, "And as for you, you said that there would be music and music there will be! But we will won't be the ones making it, you will! It better be good, too, or else!"

"Don't worry about that. I have just the right thing in mind that would be perfect for this special occasion!" Ned replied.

Ned then pulled out his II device and before Pound or the other Changeling guards could do or say anything else, Ned pressed the ON Button on it and shouted, "I call this 'The Swat'!"

Immediately, Ned's II device began to emit a special frequency and Pound and the other Changeling guards suddenly all fell to the ground, completely paralyzed and immobile, only being able to talk now! "We've been tricked! Guards attack!" Pound ordered, even though it was pointless as neither he nor the other guards could do anything.

With Pound and the guards incapacitated, Ned quickly turned off his II device in order to save the remaining power that it had for later before John, Gary, Michael and Tony took advantage of this and stole some of the guards' weapons to arm themselves! John chose a nice, sharp and long sword with a sheathe to carry it in as his weapon! "Now, this is probably one of the coolest moments of my life!"

"I'll say!" Michael agreed, who was now carrying a big, strong, metal mallet in both his hands!

"These are mine!" Gary spoke as he stole a sword just like John's and a small dagger and their sheathes to carry them in!

Tony was about to grab a weapon of his own, too, when he remembered Pound and stepped over to him and looked him straight in the eyes. Gary, knowing what Tony was about to do, turned Eddie around to prevent his younger brother from seeing Tony kill Pound, which would be an unpleasant sight that no kid like Eddie needed to see.

"Hey, Mr. Pound, I hate bugs! Bugs really annoy me, did you know that? You know what I do to fucking bugs that piss me off? I do THIS!" Tony yelled as he suddenly brought his right foot down onto Pound's head and began to bash his head in over and over again!

Pound screamed in unbearable pain and agony as his blood (which was blue) along with pieces of his brain matter went flying across the room and onto Tony in the process!

After 20 seconds of this, Pound finally died and Tony stopped. John then went over to Tony and said, "What the hell, Tony!? What's wrong with you, man!?"

Tony just ignored John and even the fact that his clothes were covered in Pound's blood and pieces of his brain as he went over to another Changeling guard and stole a sharp, metal axe from the defenseless creature. Tony then turned around to face John and said, "That bastard had it coming!"

"Maybe, but even he didn't deserve that!" John replied.

"Whatever. You can lecture me all you want! I don't give a shit about what you or anyone else thinks about what I did!" Tony answered as he began to head out the door that led out of the room. "Now, go ahead and do something about those other bitchlings to keep them from causing us any more trouble or I'll gladly do it myself!"

As much as John and the others wanted to berate Tony, they still weren't out of the woods yet and had to get a move on before Chrysalis and the other Changelings discovered what had happened so they wasted no more time and got to work on dealing with the remaining 14 Changeling guards. Not wanting to stoop to Tony's level or take anymore lives needlessly, the others opted in favor of chaining the remaining guards to a wall with magical chains that they found in a nearby closet outside the room designed to handle and successfully neutralize any pony or Changeling while wearing them.

In addition, the 12 humans also closed and locked the door behind them to help keep the Changeling guards inside. With the magical chains on, the Changelings would remain incredibly weak and would be unable to transform and wouldn't cause the group of 12 humans anymore problems.

With that taken care of, the 12 humans quickly and carefully made their way through the halls of The Hive and toward their next destination: The Armory. They made sure to avoid being seen or heard by any other Changeling guards and even had to hide a few times to avoid getting caught.

"Hurry, guys! This way!" Ned told them as he followed the directions on the map until he and the others came to a pair of double doors with a sign above them that read, 'Armory Room'.

"This is it! Now, we just need to get those explosives and we can move on to Phase 2 of the plan!" Ned spoke quietly.

Ned and the others slowly entered The Armory, aware that as such, there would likely be even more Changeling guards inside. And sure enough, there was at least a good couple dozen in there, who all immediately became aware of the 12 humans' presence and tried to subdue them and warn the other Changelings of The Hive that they had escaped!

The Changelings in The Armory, unfortunately, never got the chance to do so as Ned turned his II device back on, the frequency it emitted also incapacitated these Changelings too, and like before they too collapsed to the ground and could nothing to help themselves or stop the humans. "What is this!?" a Changeling guard demanded.

"I don't know!" another Changeling guard spoke. "Maybe the humans have casted some kind of paralyzing spell on us!"

Ned, then turned off the II device again as he and the others ignored the defenseless Changelings, walked past them and came to another door that read, 'Explosives Room. Danger! Highly explosive! Keep out!'

"Alright, guys! They should be right through here! You know what to do!" Ned said.

"What're you doing!?" a Changeling guard demanded as he quickly noticed that they were about to enter The Explosives room, which caused his eyes to widen in shock. "You stay away from that room! It's strictly off-limits to everyone! Not even I'm allowed in there!"

"Too bad, bud! You and your queen kidnapped us, threatened my little brother's and Zach's lives and forced us to help you create weapons to assist you in taking over Equestria! Now, you have left us no choice, but to fight back and take drastic measures!" Gary reminded him.

"When the queen hears about this, you'll-" the Changeling guard was saying, but never finished his sentence as Tony lunged at him and had his head decapitated with his axe!

Seeing this, the other Changeling guards were about to scream out in terror, but Tony faced them all and warned, "If any of you say anything else, you're next!"

The other Changeling guards had no choice, but to obey Tony's order, due to the weak and helpless position that they were in, lest they meet the same fate as their fellow Changeling guard. "Good. That's what I thought!" Tony said as he went back to the others at the entrance to The Explosives Room.

The others really wanted to berate Tony again for his cruel behavior, but like before, they had to complete the rest of their plan and carry it out fast before Chrysalis and the entire Hive was onto them, which would only make things even more difficult for them than it already was! So with that, Ned opened the room to The Explosives Room as everyone else followed him inside.

The Explosives Room was a much smaller room than the main Armory Room itself. Because of that and the fact that the room was mostly empty, it didn't take Ned and the others to locate all the explosives which were stacked up in boxes right in the middle of the room.

"Bingo!" Ned shouted.

Ned then opened one of the boxes to find that the explosives (not surprisingly) looked like sticks of dynamite, only made of diamonds and a red, glowing energy them instead. Ned also found some instructions that explained that like time-bombs, all you had to do was set the time that you wanted them to go off and they would when the countdown on them reached 0. However, these time-bombs' red, glowing energy inside them actually was a powerful essence of magic, which was so powerful when unleashed that it was just as effective and deadly as a hand grenade!

Ned then turned to face John, Gary, Jeff Tony and Michael and instructed them, "Alright! John, Gary, Jeff, Tony and Michael, each of you grab one box and follow me back out into The Armory!"

"Do I have to?" Jeff complained.. "Those boxes look heavy!"

"Do it, Jeff, or I'll make you carry two of them on your own instead of just one instead!" Michael told him.

"Fine! I'll do it! But when this is all over, I wanna go a restaurant and get one of those all-you-can-eat meals!" Jeff reluctantly agreed.

John, Gary, Jeff, Tony and Michael each grabbed a box and followed Ned and the others back outside and into the Armory Room. The affects of Ned's II device were almost about to wear off the remaining Changeling guards and they all soon noticed the boxes of explosives that John, Gary, Jeff, Tony, and Michael were carrying and began to panic! Ned quickly turned the II device on again to incapacitate them once again and turned it off 20 seconds later after he was sure that all the Changelings had been affected by it, but that did not prevent the terrified Changelings from screaming.

"Oh, crud! The humans have the explosives!" a Changeling guard shrieked.

"If those explosives all go off, The Hive is doomed!" another Changeling guard cried out.

"I told you all to shut up!" Tony yelled as true to his word just a little bit ago, he gently placed his box of explosives down on the ground before he began to brutally slaughter all the defenseless Changelings one at a time! Most were killed by his axe, while others were crushed to death by his feet like Tony had done earlier to Pound!

Gary yet again had to turn his brother away from the bloody carnage and after Tony had finished off the last of the Changeling guards in The Armory, Tony said, "I hope I get to kill Chrysalis next because she's next!" Tony then grabbed his box again and rejoined the others.

The others once again, wanted to chastise Tony for his actions, but now was not the time to do that. They did, however, promise that, after they escaped, they would confront him about his excessive and merciless behavior when they got the chance.

With the boxes of explosives in tow, Ned and the others headed to where they would plant their explosives at. There were five total locations in The Hive that they had to plant and set off the explosives and 4 of those places, were The Mess Hall, The Meeting Room, The Changeling Barracks and of, course, Queen Chrysalis's Throne Room. The 5th place turned out to be The Armory Room and much to Jeff's relief and joy, it was his box of explosives that had been chosen to be set off there, meaning he wouldn't have to carry his box now. The explosives in The Armory Room had already been set to go off in 8 minutes.

Planting the time bombs was very tricky and difficult with all the Changelings around, but thanks to Ned and Stan's ingenuity and cleverness, the time-bombs for The Mess Hall, The Meeting Room and The Changeling Barracks, were all planted successfully and no Changeling had seen or heard them either. The time-bombs themselves were hidden so well, that by the time they all went off, the Changelings wouldn't know what hit them!

'4 bombs down, only 1 more to go!' Ned thought as he and the others quickly and quietly made their way to Chrysalis's Throne Room!

Meanwhile, back outside of the very same room that the humans had escaped from, The Mane 6 were now standing outside of the door as they now believed that they had finally found their human friends, who were supposed to be right inside. "John, Gary, Michael, Ned, Alice, Claire, Tony and Eddie, don't worry! We're here and we're gonna get you out!" Twilight shouted as she used her magic to unlock and open the door before she and her friends rushed inside.

However, when they entered, they all froze in place in shock and confusion when they noticed that not only were their 8 human friends not there, but there were some Changeling guards in chained to a wall, staring at them with looks of confusion, shock and fear. The 6 ponies' blood ran cold when they noticed the bloody mess on the ground that used to be Pound, which made them all scream in horror and disgust!

"What the hay!" Applejack shouted.

"Eeeek!" Fluttershy shrieked in fright as she cowered behind Rarity, who was just as equally disturbed by this terrible scene as Fluttershy and the other ponies.

"What in the name of Equestria happened here!?" Twilight cried out.

"It was the humans! They did it!" the Elements Of Harmony heard one of the remaining Changeling guards say.

"Really!? How!?" Twilight demanded.

"I don't really know! All I know is that we Changelings heard a strange noise and the next thing we know, we're just as weak and defenseless as we are now! Then, they stole some of our weapons, too! If that wasn't enough, one of those humans, who goes by the name of Tony, went nuts and crushed Pound's head in with his right foot! I don't know about you, but that human is scary!" the same Changeling replied.

"Do you know where they went?" Rarity asked, slowly getting over the gruesome scene around her and her friends.

"That I do not know," the Changeling guard admitted.

"By the way, now that I think about it, why did you want our human friends anyway?" Applejack asked. "And don't try to lie to me because I'll know if are trying to!"

"It's really our queen that wanted them, not The Hive!" the Changeling spoke honestly. "She wanted them to help her and the Changeling race conquer Equestria and to do that, she forced them to build weapons for her and The Hive! As for what kind of weapons that she was after, I don't know! All I do know is that they're supposed to be much more powerful and deadly than any weapon in Equestria, Equis and possibly even the Elements Of Harmony!"

Twilight and her friends gasped after hearing this. Weapons more powerful than the Elements Of Harmony!? That was impossible! "That's impossible! The Elements Of Harmony are the greatest power known to all of ponykind and all of Equis!" Twilight spoke.

"That's what I thought, but Queen Chrysalis is so obsessed with defeating you and the princesses and conquering Equestria, that she'll go to just about any lengths to make it happen! She's even willing to have all of Equestria destroyed just to get her revenge on you!" the Changeling revealed. "To be honest, the fact that she's willing to go that far to do that scares me!"

"Well, thanks for telling us everything you know about what happened here, but now we need to go and find out where they are!" Twilight said as she and her friends made their way back out of the room.

"Wait! Don't just leave us like this! Help us!" the Changeling begged.

"And why should we do that, huh? You're Changelings! You work for Queen Chrysalis, remember?" Rainbow Dash pointed out.

"Not anymore! As of right now, she is no longer my queen and I don't wanna serve or follow somepony who puts themselves and their own selfish and cruel ambitions before the needs of their own citizens and in this case, Changelings! For years, I've put up with her obsession to get revenge on you and take over Equestria, but look where it's gotten us now! Ponies hate us, we're forbidden from entering Equestria at all, we live in terrible conditions in the middle of nowhere, we depend entirely on love to feed us and satisfy our hunger and now we've lost one of our own in a very terrible way to a member of a race not from this world that we provoked by kidnapping and forcing to work for us against their own will!" the Changeling announced. "But long story short, I wish to desert The Hive, Chrysalis and the Changeling race! I don't know where I'll go, but I rather go spend time in jail in Canterlot than continue to live like this any longer!"

The Elements of Harmony were quite taken aback by the Changeling's announcement. They had never thought that they would meet a Changeling who was actually on their side and against Chrysalis like them!

Twilight, Rarity, Fluttershy, Pinkie Pie and Rainbow Dash weren't sure if they could trust the Changeling or if he really meant what he said. However, Applejack, being the Element Of Honesty, turned to the others and confirmed that what he was saying was in fact true and that he really did intend to change his ways and leave The Hive and Chrysalis.

Soon, though, it became clear that he wasn't the only one who felt this way as one by one, all the other Changeling guards present also announced that they were deserting The Hive, Chrysalis and the other Changelings too! Like the first Changeling guard, Applejack determined that they weren't lying and that they were now on their side and not Chrysalis's!

Pinkie suddenly became very excited as a big smile spread across her face as she shouted, "Yay! We made friends with some of the Changelings! Now, we can throw a 'We Made Friends With Changelings Party'! Woohoo!"

"That sounds very nice. I would like that. But before we leave, we need to go get our families first! If we leave now, Chrysalis might harm them once she discovers that we have left and betrayed her and we don't want to live without them nor do we want anything bad to happen to them!" one of the other former Changeling guards pleaded. "Please help us leave this bad place with our loved ones!"

"Alright. We'll help you, but only if you promise us that you'll be better ponies...Uh...I mean Changelings and not try to betray us, steal love from ponies or conquer Equestria again! You have to Pinkie Promise, understand? And if you break that kind of promise, Pinkie will know!" Twilight told the Changelings, knowing how well-known Pinkie Pie was for not only keeping promises, but also for her infamous 'Pinkie Promises', which many ponies had come to learn to never break, lest they suffer Pinkie's wrath!

"That sounds fair enough! It's a deal!" one of the Changelings agreed as he and all the other Changeling guards in the room all Pinkie Promised not to betray the Elements Of Harmony, steal love from ponies and conquer Equestria.

With that said, there was no going back for the former Changeling guards. They had all made their choices and not only were they effectively betraying Chrysalis and the rest of their kind, but they had now also made a Pinkie Promise and they would have to keep it for the rest of their lives no matter what.

"Okay, girls!" Twilight told her friends. "Applejack, Fluttershy, Pinkie Pie, Rainbow and Rarity, I need you to go take the Changelings to their families and help them all escape from here! As for me, I still need to find our human friends and get the Elements Of Harmony back from Chrysalis!"

"Are you sure, Twilight? You know just how dangerous and tricky Chrysalis is! What if something happens and you need help?" Rarity reminded Twilight. "Besides, you don't even know where are human friends are either!"

"I might be able to help you with that!" one of the former Changeling guards said. "The humans may be immune to magic and it's impossible to pinpoint their exact location when the entire Hive is immune to pony magic. But that one human, Tony, got covered in Pound's blood, too! All you need to do is use a tracking spell to track the blood from Pound that went on Tony and that will let you track Tony and wherever Tony is-"

"So is the others!" Twilight finished his sentence as she realized that he was right and that she had just figured out the solution to finding her lost human friends.

"Thanks! You're a genius!" Twilight thanked the Changeling.

"It's no problem! You're helping me and the other Changelings here with us, so I thought it was only fair that I do something to help you out in return," the Changeling replied.

"Well, what are we waiting for? Let's get going before Chrysalis catches on to us!" Rarity spoke.

"And I'll see you guys as soon as I find the humans and get out of here with them and the Elements Of Harmony!" Twilight promised as she parted ways with her friends, who went with the Changelings, who were all freed from their chains and led away with Twilight's friends, while Twilight used a tracking spell to track the blood on Tony, so that she could find all her human friends before she went to take back the Elements Of Harmony from Chrysalis!

Speaking of our human protagonists, they had now finally arrived at Queen Chrysalis's Throne Room and to their surprise, found it to be empty! There were no Changelings or even Queen Chrysalis herself to be seen in sight!

"Interesting. I wasn't expecting this," Zach said. "Planting the last of the explosives will be a piece of cake!"

Michael didn't waste another moment and carefully and gently planted his box of explosives that contained the last time-bomb inside right against a huge pillar that supported the entire ceiling. Once the bomb went off, the pillar would be destroyed and when that happened, this along with all the explosions of the other time-bombs that they had planted would cause the entire Hive to collapse in on itself like a cave-in in an underground mine!

Ned quickly set the timer on the time-bomb to go off in 5 minutes, which they would need to get out in time. "Okay, everyone! That should do it! The bombs have all been successfully planted and set! Now, let's get out the hell out of here!"

"The first bomb that we planted and set will go off in 20 seconds! Once it does, things are gonna start getting much more dangerous and risky! And when the final bomb goes off, too, we'll only have less than a minute to get out of this place before The Entire Hive comes down on us-Literally!" Stan added.

"You don't need to tell me twice!" Jeff spoke.

"Hey, guys! Something doesn't feel right here," Gary said. "Planting and setting the last of the explosives was easy, too easy if you ask me! Chrysalis and some other Changelings should've been here, but they weren't. I think this is-" Gary told the others was quickly interrupted by an all-too-familiar voice that he and the others knew all too well!

"A trap?" Chrysalis finished as the evil Changeling queen suddenly appeared from behind her throne with an evil grin on her face!

"Chrysalis!?" everyone spoke in shocked unison.

"The one and only," the wicked Changeling queen announced. "I must say, I didn't think you would be able to outsmart and defeat some of my guards. You humans really do have some spunk! Unfortunately, that spunk will cost you dearly!"

"You don't scare us, Chrysalis! It's the 12 of us against you! You're outnumbered!" Michael shot back.

"Am I?" Chrysalis spoke as 30 Changeling guards suddenly seemingly appeared out of nowhere and surrounded the group of 12 humans! "As you can see, it is you who is outnumbered, not me!"

Chrysalis then noticed the time-bomb next to the huge pillar as a look of slight anger and annoyance appeared on her face. "So this is your plan, huh? To plant and set time-bombs like this one throughout The Hive and to blow me and my fellow Changelings to oblivion? Nice try, but that's not gonna happen!" Chrysalis questioned. "It's too bad! You went through all the trouble of getting this far, only for your efforts to be in vain! How pathetic!"

"After I deactivate the countdown on this bomb, I'll have 6 of you immediately killed, while the rest of my guards go find and stop all the other bombs that you've planted and set! The other 6 of you that I spare will continue to make me and The Hive more of your human weapons until either I have enough for the entire Hive to launch a massive assault on Equestria and you're of no further use to me or I have you imprisoned or disposed of for any future attempts to resist me and the mighty Changeling race!"

It was then that everyone felt and heard the first bomb go off in The Armory! "Well, you're too late to stop one of our bombs from going off! The other 4 are all set to go off real soon as well!" Michael shouted.

"Don't get cocky, you insolent welp! Just for that remark, you're gonna be the first of the 6 of you who will be killed!" Chrysalis threatened.

"Unfortunately for you, Chrysalis, we have an ace up our sleeve!" Gary informed the evil Changeling ruler. "Ned, do it now!"

Ned quickly turned on the II device yet again and it emitted its special frequency that as expected, immediately began to affect Chrysalis and the 30 Changeling guards with her! After 5 seconds of this, Ned quickly turned his II device off once again.

Ned and the others knew that Ned's device would temporarily put Chrysalis and the other Changelings out of commission, which would be more than enough time for them not only to escape, but also by the time the affects wore off on the evil queen and her colleagues, all the bombs would've gone off and Chrysalis and the other Changelings would be buried underneath the entire Hive! Ned's device hadn't failed them yet and it was unlikely that it would fail them now.

But to the 12 humans' shock, confusion, and slight horror, Chrysalis and the other Changelings didn't collapse to the ground or become severely weak! In fact, Chrysalis and the 30 Changeling guards with her only looked very annoyed and seemed to be feeling some slight pain in their heads, but nothing that would render them defenseless or prevent them from attacking!

"Where are those annoying sounds coming from!?" Chrysalis demanded as she felt some minor pain in her head. "I don't know what's causing it, but a little headache isn't gonna stop me!"

"Oh, no, guys! I think Chrysalis and the 30 Changelings with her are somehow very resistant to the affects of the frequency that my II device makes!" Ned panicked before he noticed a red flashing light on his device, which indicated that the II device's battery was almost dead! "If that's not bad enough, the battery on this is nearly out of juice! I estimate that it has only 1 more minute of power left at most before it dies on me!"

"So those annoying sounds and our sudden headaches are your doing? Well, guess what!? Our headaches are already beginning to go away and I'm gonna make you feel a thousand times more pain than what my headache gave me!" Chrysalis swore as she and her Changelings slowly moved in on the party of 12 humans to carry out the wicked queen's threats!

"Not so fast, Chrysalis!" a familiar voice was heard that everyone recognized.

The 12 humans, Chrysalis and the 30 changelings all turned to see Twilight Sparkle glaring at Chrysalis and her Changeling guards with a look of anger. "Chrysalis for crimes against the humans and Equestria, you and the other Changelings are under arrest! Surrender now or there will be consequences!"

"Me? Surrender? Ha! I sooner have my wings ripped out than lose to filthy and insignificant ponies like you!" Chrysalis replied. "I will enjoy destroying you, Twilight! Today, I finally will take my revenge on you and all your friends!"

"I also order you to return the Elements Of Harmony at once!" Twilight demanded.

Chrysalis then pulled out The Elements from a nearby bag next to her throne and said, "Sorry, but they belong to me now and I don't plan on giving them back-Ever!"

Chrysalis then turned her attention to her guards and ordered, "Well, what are you waiting for!? Attack her! Attack all of them!"

"Alright, Chrysalis! If you won't listen to reason, than we'll have to do this the hard way instead!" Twilight said as she used her magic on some of the guards and sent them flying across the room!

Some more Changeling guards were about to attack Twilight, but John, Tony, Gary and Michael joined the fight and begin to fight them off with their weapons! "Oh, heck yeah!" Tony spoke in excitement as he sliced a Changeling guard across his body with his axe! "This is even better than watching wrestling on TV!"

Michael easily knocked another Changeling guard on the head with his mallet, which left the poor Changeling seriously injured, not to mention the terrible pain that the Changeling would endure once he regained consciousness! "You made a mistake by kidnapping us and forcing us to work for you against our will!" Michael spoke.

Another Changeling guard tried to attack Eddie, which forced Gary to protect his little brother and fight the Changeling off. After a short sword fight between him and his Changeling opponent and realizing that the Changeling was gonna transform into a strong animal to kill him, Gary had no choice, but to slit his opponent's throat and take his life!

Gary didn't like the fact that he had just committed murder, but when his little brother's life was at stake, he decided that he was still a better person than Tony. Gary then turned to Stan and Alice and told them, "Stan and Alice, I need you to protect, Eddie while I deal with the rest of these guys! Can you do that for me?"

Stan and Alice both nodded, grabbed Eddie and kept him close to them. If any Changelings came their way, Stan and Alice wouldn't let them get anywhere close to Eddie even if they had to join the fight themselves as well!

By this point, Chrysalis was beginning to lose her cool as she watched Twilight and the humans slowly defeat her 30 Changeling guards. Before long, though, Chrysalis and everyone else heard and felt another one of the bombs that Ned and the other humans had planted and set go off and Chrysalis didn't like the way things were going!

'My guards are completely useless!' Chrysalis thought angrily, realizing that she would have to take matters into her own hooves. 'It appears that if I want the job done, I gotta do it myself!'

Chrysalis then flew over to Twilight and before Twilight could react, the evil queen sent her colliding into a wall! Thanks to Twilight's magic, though, Twilight only suffered a few scratches here and there all over her body, but otherwise, she was fine.

Twilight then took up a battle stance and prepared herself for her fight against Chrysalis. "This will make sure that nopony else interferes with our little fight!" Chrysalis announced as she lit up her horn and began to create walls of blue fire that slowly began to surround them and forced everyone else to leave the room and stand outside in the hall, while the Changeling guards who didn't react fast enough were quickly burned alive by the deadly flames!

At first, it seemed like it would be just a one-on-one fight between Twilight and Chrysalis, but John had managed to get inside of the area of Chrysalis's Throne Room where said Changeling queen and Twilight were to fight before Chrysalis had created the walls of burning blue flames! This meant that John could help Twilight defeat Chrysalis, yet it also meant that he was trapped, too, with the only way out, blocked off by the walls of flames!

"You didn't think at least one of us humans, who you and your goons kidnapped, forced us to help you with your plans to invade Equestria and threatened our lives wouldn't be part of this fight, did you?" John spoke. "Well, like it or not, it's you against me and Twilight and we're gonna make you pay for what you did to us!"

"Oh, no! The big, bad,, ugly, scary pony and her even more hideous ape-like sidekick are about to fight me! Oh, whatever will I do!" Chrysalis taunted. "I'm not afraid of you, human, Twilight Lame-O or anything else!"

"I'm so close to getting my revenge and becoming the new ruler of Equestria and eventually even all of Equis and now only you stand in the way of achieving my dream!" Chrysalis announced. "You think my weak and incompetent guards were tough? Well, if you wanna a real fight, I'll be more than happy to oblige!"

Suddenly, everyone all felt and heard the third bomb that Ned and the others had planted and set go off, too, meaning that only two bombs now remained! This only reminded everyone that time was running out and they had to escape The Hive soon or they were in real trouble!

Outside of Chrysalis's Throne Room and on the other side of the walls of blue flames, the others had managed to defeat the few remaining changelings that were left before they turned their attention back to John, Twilight and Chrysalis, who were all getting ready to fight. The others wanted to help, but they couldn't do anything with the walls of blue flames in their way!

Despite this, though, Ned, was determined to at least be of some help to John and Twilight, even if he couldn't help them directly with defeating Chrysalis! Ned then remembered that even though Chrysalis wasn't that affected by his II device, it still might be of some use to John and Twilight during their fight with Chrysalis. It was then that Ned realized that his II device might actually work on Chrysalis, after all! In theory, he believed that if John and Twilight could somehow manage to weaken and tire out Chrysalis first, then she would become almost as affected by the II device when he turned it on and she would be just vulnerable enough for John and Twilight to move in and deliver a few quick and strong blows to the cruel and dangerous Changeling queen in the process! Ned just needed to wait until the time was right to turn his II device on and he, John and Twilight could turn the tables on Chrysalis!

At the same time, though, Ned hoped that it wouldn't be too long as the fourth bomb was set to go off in another minute and a half and Ned definitely didn't want to stick around for too long after the last bomb went off either! 'This fight better last too long or we're all screwed!' Ned though as he was becoming more and more nervous with each passing second.

Back to John, Twilight and Chrysalis, Twilight finally made her move and fired a beam of powerful unicorn magic from her horn at Chrysalis, who quickly and easily dodged it. Twilight shot more beams at Chrysalis, but they, too, also missed as Chrysalis grinned evilly and spoke in a taunting tone of voice, "Is that the best you got? My own Changeling guards can shoot better than you can!"

John tried to attack Chrysalis, too, but Chrysalis used her own magic from her horn and shot a beam at John's sword, which caused it to be sent flying across the room, past the walls of blue flames with the others and out of his reach! John was now unarmed again and only had his bare hands and the rest of his body to use as weapons!

Next, John and Twilight tried to attack Chrysalis at the same time, but the mad Changeling queen quickly overpowered them and sent Twilight crashing into a table, which only left her with some minor injuries thanks to her magic, but she was still in bad shape and she had to use most of her magic to heal some nasty cuts and wounds where blood was beginning to flow out from to prevent losing to much blood and possibly dying of blood loss! With most of her magic having been used up, Twilight was unable to fire anymore beams of magic at Chrysalis or use any other spells that could possibly harm or defeat the insane Changeling queen!

John, however, managed to punch Chrysalis in her chest, which didn't do much harm to Chrysalis, but did make her even angrier than she already was! "You know, human, you and your other disgusting pals are really starting to get on my nerves!" Chrysalis told John.

"Well, then why don't we get serious and you stop playing games with me? I know you can transform, just like all your cronies can, so stop and show me why you think your so high and mighty! Go ahead! Do your worst!" John challenged.

Chrysalis didn't know whether she should accept John's challenge and transform into her most powerful form or stay the way she was and just kill the stupid human with her magic. If Chrysalis turned into her most powerful transformation, she would immediately become very disorientated once she change back as a result due to how much of her own magic she needed to assume that form! On the other hoof, if she didn't do it, she might make herself look weak to John and the rest of The Hive (if they found out)and Chrysalis wasn't about to lose face just because of the damn human's challenge, which would leave her dizzy and a bit weak in her head afterwards!

"I'll show you, human!" Chrysalis shouted angrily, as she accepted John's challenge. "Get ready to say your prayers because your about to meet your doom!"

Without hesitating, Chrysalis began to change into her so-called most powerful form and before long, Chrysalis now stood before John as a 25-foot Cobra-Dragon hybrid! Chrysalis grinned evilly down at John, who tried to look brave, but was really freaking out inside of him! "Prepare to meet your maker, human! Thisssssssssssssss will be very fun for me indeed!"

John, Chrysalis, twilight and the others, then heard and felt the fourth bomb go off! 'Oh, shit! Now, there's only one bomb left and after that, it won't be long before this whole place comes down on us!' John thought with worry. 'As if being in the middle of a fight with a 25-foot, bloodthirsty, Changeling queen-turned Cobra-Dragon hybrid wasn't bad enough!'

Just then, John quickly dodged to his left to avoid the sharp and deadly Cobra-Dragon fangs of Chrysalis, who was now trying to turn him into a bite-sized snack! "Oh, crap!" John freaked out as he was forced to run all around the world (except for where the walls of blue flames weren't at) while being chased by Chrysalis, who was right behind him like a hungry wolf hunting its prey!

Unfortunately for John, it wasn't long before Chrysalis had him cornered and he had nowhere to run, much less have any way to fight or defeat Chrysalis! "Well, it looks like our little game has come to an end! It's too bad! I was just starting to have fun!" Chrysalis spoke as she slowly brought her giant face closer and closer down to John as she prepared to finish him off!

"Oh, no, John!" Twilight screamed out in fear, as she tried in vain to summon enough magic to use a spell powerful enough to save him and defeat Chrysalis!

Chrysalis ignored her, knowing that there wasn't anything Twilight could do to stop her now and that soon, she would meet the same fate as John! "You lose, human! Prepare to die and suffer the wrath of-" Chrysalis cried out, but didn't get a chance to finish her sentence or kill John!

Suddenly, due to the damage that the 4 bombs that had gone off in The Hive had cause, the ceiling of Chrysalis's Throne Room started to slowly collapse! And it began with a huge piece if falling debris from the ceiling that landed hard on top of Chrysalis's massive head, which in turn caused her to scream in pain as her head and the rest of her giant, Cobra-Dragon hybrid form fell to the floor!

This came as a huge relief for both John and Twilight as that falling piece of debris had just saved both their lives! If that wasn't enough, the pain and shock from the falling debris that had hit Chrysalis on her head caused Chrysalis to be unable to maintain her powerful form any longer and she instantly reverted back to her original Changeling queen form, only now she was completely disoriented (just like she knew it would happen) and had a bloody wound on the side of her head! Chrysalis also dropped the bag that she had been carrying with The Elements Of Harmony on the floor, too, in the process.

Seeing what had happened to chrysalis and realizing that this was his chance, Ned didn't waste any time and turned his II device on once again. This time it worked as Chrysalis began to have trouble standing up and felt incredibly weak, which now made her vulnerable to attack!

Then, to everyone's shock and horror, they all finally heard, felt and saw the final bomb go off, which meant that the entire Hive was gonna really start coming down now and that they now only had 10 minutes to escape and get outside or it was game over for all of them! But first, Chrysalis needed to be taken of!

"John! Twilight! Now's your chance! Attack Chrysalis now while she's vulnerable!" Ned shouted out to them.

John and Twilight didn't need to be told twice and without saying a word they both attacked Chrysalis at the same time! John punched her to the face, while Twilight delivered a few strong bucks to the evil Changeling queen's stomach, which caused Chrysalis to cough up the contents of her last meal as well as her to get a broken nose and a couple broken ribs!

After a minute of this, Chrysalis finally recovered from her stupor and the effects of Ned's II device and felt unbearable pain throughout much of her body! Realizing what had happened and what John and Twilight had done to her, Chrysalis now wore a look of rage as she wanted nothing more now than to make John and Twilight die the most painful and terrible way possible!

However, she was in no position to do that now, especially having exhausted most of her magic on her most powerful form and with the horrible beatings and injuries that she had received which now left her extremely weak and almost completely defenseless! Not to mention, that in only a matter of minutes, the entire Hive was gonna come down on her and her enemies!

Chrysalis had only one option now and that was to flee and wait to take her revenge another day! The thought of her once again having been defeated and forced to abandon her plans for revenge and conquering Equestria alone was enough to make her blood boil as she glared daggers at John and Michael!

"It's over, Chrysalis! Your days of terrorizing Equestria and innocent ponies are over! I'm taking you back to Canterlot where you'll stand trial for all the crimes you've committed over the years!" Twilight informed Chrysalis.

"Nice try, Twilight Dumb-O, but I have other plans!" Chrysalis announced in a very furious voice. "You may have beaten me again, but next time, you won't be so lucky!"

"Sorry, Chrysalis, but there isn't gonna be a next time for you! You're all washed up!" Twilight replied.

"I beg to differ!" Chrysalis shot back as she suddenly summoned the last of her magic and used to perform one last spell!

Chrysalis was instantly enveloped in a bright light that blinded Twilight, John and the others, but only lasted a few seconds! When the bright light had faded, John and Chrysalis soon noticed that Chrysalis herself was nowhere to be seen!

"Darn it! She got away!" Twilight spoke.

"Forget about her, Twilight! Right now, we have bigger problems to worry about!" John said as he and her saw that the ceiling in Chrysalis's Throne Room was starting to rapidly fall apart as more falling debris came crashing down all around them. "We need to go before this entire place comes down on us!"

"You're right!" Twilight agreed. "But first, I need to get The Elements!" Twilight quickly grabbed the bag with The Elements and turned to the walls of blue flames and casted a spell to extinguish them so that both she and John could leave and rejoin the others and rush out of The Hive as fast as they could! Along the way, John retrieved his sword and quickly and carefully placed it back in its sheath, which he carried on his back as he and Twilight left the Throne Room.

After John and Twilight had rejoined the others, they all wasted no more time and began to follow Ned's map of the Hive to the Hive's entrance and only exit as fast as their legs could possibly take them! At the same time, they avoided falling debris and any Changelings who hadn't gotten outside or weren't dead!

'We only have a few more minutes left!' Ned thought with panic. 'We need to MOVE it or we won't make it in time!'

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In the meantime, outside and a safe distance away from The Hive, Twilight's friends, along with the former 14 Changeling guards and their families now stood atop a sandy hill of the desert as they all were anxiously waiting for Twilight and their human friends to all emerge from The Hive alive and in one piece! "Where are they!?" Applejack panicked. "That place is gonna come down any minute now!"

"Ooh! Ooh! I see them!" Pinkie Pie shouted, pointing toward the entrance of The Hive. "They just gout, but they're on they're way!"

Sure enough, the group of 12 human and Twilight carrying the bag with The Elements Of Harmony on her back could be seen outside the front of the entrance to The Hive and rushing to put as much distance between them and it as they could before the entire place collapsed completely! Luckily for all of them, they succeeded and not a moment too soon!

Everyone all watched as The Hive finally collapsed in on itself and the Changelings' home and headquarters was no more! The 12 humans had finally escaped from that terrible place and were free again and it felt good to be breathing fresh air again after what felt like years in The Hive!

It wasn't long before Twilight and the humans were reunited with Twilight's friends and former Changeling guards and their families. When the 12 humans first saw the Changelings, though, they took up defensive stances and were about to attack them, but the Mane 6 quickly explained to them that they were on their side now and that they no longer served Chrysalis anymore and wouldn't cause them or anypony else anymore trouble ever again.

After awhile, the 12 humans were finally convinced and relaxed themselves, but they said that they would keep their eyes on the Changelings with them in case they decided to change their minds and give them any problems. The Elements and the Changelings themselves assured them that they wouldn't.

Twilight then opened the bag with The Elements in it and returned each Element back to each of her friends. Twilight and her friends were glad to finally have The Elements back knowing that they were vital to defeating anymore future threats to Equestria like Chrysalis. "Speaking of Chrysalis, Twi, what happened to her? Did she not get out in time? Is she dead?" Applejack asked.

"I don't know, Applejack," Twilight replied. "After me and John beat her, she had one more trick left and she used the last of her magic to escape? After that, I don't know where she is or even if she's still alive!"

"Well, wherever she is, I'll be sure to give her one of my patented Rainbow Power Beat-Downs!" Rainbow Dash promised.

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Meanwhile, about a mile away from where our heroes were at, Chrysalis was slowly trekking through the BadLands Desert, muttering curses and repeatedly kicking the sand around her. She wasn't the least bit happy about everything that had just recently happened to her and The Hive!

Not only had she lost the humans and the weapons they promised her, which were her key to getting her revenge and taking over Equestria, but she had been defeated and humiliated twice and had lost both The Hive as well as most, if not all of her Changelings in the destruction of The Hive itself, which Chrysalis had just barely managed to escape from in time after she got away from John and Twilight!

Twilight, John and the other humans had caused her to lose everything! EVERYTHING!

"This is a nightmare! In just a short amount of time and thanks to Twilight and those bloody humans, I'm ruined!" Chrysalis yelled. "I have nowhere to go and The Hive as well as all my dear Changelings are no more! How could things possibly get any worse!?"

Chrysalis shouldn't have said that as unbeknownst to her, she wasn't alone as a mysterious figure slowly approached her from behind. "Now what am I gonna do!?" Chrysalis cried out furiously.

"How about giving me the scroll that you have?" asked an unknown male voice from behind Chrysalis.

Chrysalis turned around to see who was talking to her and she looked shocked when she saw the mysterious male figure before her, who we don't see, but only Chrysalis does. "Who in the name of Equis are you!?" Chrysalis demanded.

"Don't try to change the subject! I want that scroll that you have! The one about Starswirl The Bearded's forbidden mind spell! That one!" the unknown male figure ordered. "Give it to me!"

Chrysalis held onto the scroll that she had secretly been carrying with her all this time and held onto protectively like it was her newborn child! "If you want it, you'll have to take it over my dead body!" Chrysalis challenged.

"That can be arranged!" the mysterious figure replied as the scene moves away from Chrysalis and to the desert's background as we hear Chrysalis scream in pain and horror before her screams cease altogether.

Next, we see the scroll on the desert ground next to the lifeless and bloodied body of Chrysalis who's head had been completely severed from the rest of her body as the mysterious figure picks up the scroll and begins to slowly walk away with it! All we see is his shadow, which we also can't completely make out to avoid revealing too much about his identity.

As we see his shadow over the scroll, showing that he's studying its contents, we hear him say, "Hmm. This is very interesting indeed. My master will be most pleased with this knowledge once I present it to him!"

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Meanwhile, back to our heroes, they were now walking through the desert as the hot desert sun shined down on them and they were now sweating and becoming dehydrated. Aside from the heat and that everypony was tired, they all were getting hungry as well.

Twilight and her friends also were just getting used to the fact that not only did they make friends with some of the Changelings, during their mission to rescue their 8 human friends, but also that they now had 12 humans on their world, instead of just the 8 that they already knew like they had previously thought! They asked John, Gary, Michael, Ned, Alice, Claire, Eddie and Tony if they had anything to do with them and why they were on Equis, but their 8 human friends were just as surprised by the 4 newcomers as they were! As it turns out, no one and nopony could've predicted that 4 more humans would suddenly just show up on Equis not long after John, Gary, Michael, Ned, Alice, Claire, Eddie and Tony had showed up. One thing was for sure and that was when they got back to Ponyville, Twilight was gonna have to get Spike to write and send a letter to Celestia and Luna about these unexpected developments!

Still, after some introductions and explanations, Twilight, Applejack, Fluttershy, Rarity, Rainbow Dash and Pinkie Pie quickly warmed up to Zach, Stan, Jeff and Roxanne. Pinkie Pie was really excited now. As soon as they got a chance, she wanted to throw everyone and everypony a 'We're Now Friends With 12 Humans And Changelings Party!'

"I hate the heat and this desert almost as much as I hated Chrysalis and The Hive!" Zach whined.

"I hate that even now that we're finally free, I'm not at a restaurant, eating my fill yet!" Jeff complained.

"Oh, shut up, Jeff!" John said. "Talking about food isn't gonna help us get back to Ponyville any faster!"

"Oh, and like you're not hungry and dying to get something to eat, too, yourself?" Jeff shot back.

John didn't answer and instead was silent and continued to walk with the others, knowing that now wasn't the time to get into an argument with Jeff. When they got back, though, he, Jeff and the others all intended to eat and get some rest before they did anything else.

Fortunately, The Mane 6, the Changelings and the 12 humans wouldn't have to walk all the way back to through the desert, out of the Badlands and back to Ponyville as suddenly, Princess Celestia and Princess Luna both appeared in front of them with a bunch of Royal guards at their sides riding in carriages, which were, of course, were being pulled around by 4 Royal guards each! The princesses smiled upon seeing The Elements Of Harmony and their 8 familiar human friends, but their expressions changed into confused and shocked upon noticing both the 4 new humans and the Changelings that were accompanying them!

When everyone and everypony was finally standing in front of each other, Celestia asked, "Well, I wasn't expecting this!"

"Neither was I Tia!" Luna agreed.

"Well, it looks like we got some explaining to do, huh?" Zach said nervously.

"Kid, you don't know the half of it!" Twilight spoke.