Imago

      Celestia! Imago was enraged at her for putting his queen in danger! Chrysalis was stunned. Celestia picked her up and suspended her in the air. It held her upside-down and disabled magic. Imago and his siblings charged Celestia, only to be stopped by Luna, who had stepped out from behind her. Pinkie was cowering behind Celestia, too messed up to accomplish anything. “So Queen Chrysalis, did you think you could come back to harm my subjects again so soon?” Chrysalis spit on her, sticking one eye shut. Celestia tried frantically to pull the spit off, but to no avail. She looked at Chrysalis again, this time with one eye closed, and hit her in the face. “You insignificant bug! How do you remove it?!” Chrysalis laughed, before getting slammed against the wall. The other three changelings hissed.

“My queen! What do we do?” Imago worriedly asked.

“I don’t know child, but-” She paused, for she was hit again. “We all need to search for an exit.” All four changelings looked for a way out. Chrysalis found one. “Celestia, you hit like a foal! Do you even know how to throw a proper punch?!” Celestia hit her again. “Come on! Your hoofguards are doing all of the work!” Celestia hit her again, more ferociously than the previous hits. Chrysalis’s face was bleeding. “Come on! Hit me with your real hooves! Punch me you worm!” She was shouting now. Celestia took the hoofguards off and prepared for the hardest punch yet. She lined her hoof up with Chrysalis’s face and let it fly. Just as it was about a hoof and a half away, Chrysalis moved the top of her head to face it. Celestia gasped as her hoof was impaled onto her jagged horn. Celestia screamed and tried to pull away, but the horn was angled so it caused too much pain when she tried.

      “Sister!” Luna called to her. Imago and his brothers took this moment of vulnerability to break out of her magic field. Chrysalis was jerking her head side-to-side, to keep Celestia occupied. Celestia herself was trying to remove her mangled hoof from Chrysalis’s head. “We are coming sister!” Luna rushed to Chrysalis, dodging attacks from Imago and the others. She got there, held Chrysalis’s head in one place and yanked Celestia’s hoof off of it. At this point, the poor hoof was ripped to shreds. Luna stopped the bleeding with magic, right before she was jumped on by the three changelings. “ENOUGH!” Luna was using the Royal Canterlot Voice. “WE HAVE A PROPOSTION TO OFFER!” The changelings stopped and climbed off of her to listen. “WE SHALL ALLOW YOU TO LEAVE HERE WITH YOUR CHILDREN, NO MORE HARMED THAN YOU ALREADY ARE, IF THOU SWEARS TO LET US GET OUR SISTER TO A DOCTOR!” Queen Chrysalis pondered this for a moment in her head. She had the princesses right where she wanted them, but she couldn’t bear to see her children harmed anymore.

      “I will accept your offer on three conditions. Anything like this,” She gestured around the room. “Never happens again, my child requires medical attention,” She pointed at the changeling tortured by Pinkie. “And we have safe passage through all cities on our way back to our Hive, as well. Are we clear?”

      “Yes, we are.” Celestia dropped Chrysalis on her head and left with her sister.

      “What do we do with her?” Imago’s brother asked, pointing at Pinkie. A dark blue aura surrounded her and she flew out of the room. “Oh.”

      “Well, lets get you a doctor.” The four changelings walked out of the door and into a hallway in Canterlot Castle. The guards gave them hateful and terrified stares as they passed. They all walked to a room that said ‘Royal Infirmary’. Chrysalis decided to have a little fun and go in with the other three. She saw Celestia on the other side of the room with Luna, both of them glaring at her. A doctor was trying to remove her spit from Celestia’s eye. “This is where I take my child, is it not?” She smirked. “Now who is going to heal him?” No one said a word. “Luna, we had an agreement.”

      “I know,” She replied. “You, heal the changeling.” The unlucky doctor sighed and got to it. When he was done, his shell wasn’t fixed, but that required time and love. “You can leave now.”

      “I am, trust me.” She left the infirmary, but she wasn’t done having fun. Chrysalis still had Celestia’s blood on her horn. Imago watched as she walked up to random ponies, splattering blood on them and busting out laughing. Her children shared in the laughter. They then went to Ponyville with and checked on the elements. Twilight started crying when four of her best friends came in saying that the fifth had died. They all lost the disguises and laughed hysterically. Then Twilight charged up a spell, only to be told that none of them could be harmed, Luna’s orders. The changelings went to each and every one of the elements, telling them something terribly tragic and then laughing in their faces when they were finished. After a full day of making ponies cry, they walked back towards the Hive. When they were all about fifteen minutes away from Ponyville, Imago turned around and told everyone that he needed to go back to Ponyville. So they said their goodbyes, Queen Chrysalis wishing him good luck, and Imago returned to Ponyville, as Spike, to find an angry Twilight awaiting his return.

      “Spike! I was so worried! Where have you been? I sent you to get me something eight hours ago!”

      “I got lost on my way to Zecora’s, I had to go around a manticore nest. Will you forgive me?” He put on the saddest puppy dog eyes he could, which weren’t too sad, and looked at her.

      “Okay Spike, but what happened to the herbs anyway?”

      “She said check in tomorrow.” Twilight looked disappointed.

      “Oh well, I guess you can go get them tomorrow.”

      “Okay, I will. Oh and by the way, where’s Cadence and Shining Armor?”

      “They went back to Canterlot this afternoon.” She said with a sigh. “It was nice having them around.”

      “Oh, see ya Twilight.” Imago walked away a little sad that he wouldn’t be able to apprehend Cadence, but he could always try again some other time. For now he just thought of all the fun things he’d get to do any other ponies that mess with him in the Everfree. Imago went to take a nap, it had been a long day.