So, as it turns out, and as I had remembered, Changelings can design their own forms to disguise into, much like when Thorax attempted to integrate with Ponies with the help of Spike.

What I didn’t realize until now however, was just how powerful that ability is, especially when I just discovered it can make changes of pure imagination, such as me being some sort of Zerg-Like Humanoid Changeling. Of course that meant with a little experimentation it was clear I could pull off all the zerg forms and biological functions… but that’s when I got to thinking.

I could pull off these crazy transformations, and mimic their biological abilities if my wardrobe covered in hydralisk spines was any indication (I’ll be fixing that later)… but what about unique, non-magical powers?

This brings me to now, where I had finished preparing myself for the challenge of pulling off an ability any nerd would wanna try that wouldn’t destroy the country-side; Bending.

“Alright, I know I can’t just make myself shift an organ that’ll let me Bend… but I know how a human body feels, so maybe if I change into a Bender, and charge a bit of my love-stores into it, I might be able to use the sensations of the disguise to understand it…”

With that knowledge, I narrowed down the choices, and possible order, of who I’d change into.

I knew Aang was gonna be a big no, as I didn’t have the fortitude needed for my own native body, and having a body with the spiritual energy to manipulate all four elements at once was not gonna be any better.

Azula was a definite negative, as I had no fucking clue if blind-jumping into a change could risk me getting whatever psychosis she had in her brain, at least this body is used to transforming into ponies or I might’ve ended up becoming a perfect duplicate of Cadence by accident!

Moving on from that nightmare scenario, Zuko and Toph were unfortunately not options as I already made enough of a mess with my Zerg transformations, meaning Fire and Earth were not good ideas for the immediate moment.

This meant my only option was Katara, since I didn’t know any other air-benders, water-bending seemed rather safe, and she was female, meaning I wouldn’t risk any major hormone shifts.

To clarify, I was able to pull off turning into Cadence so easily because Chrysalis’ body is used to changing into shapes native to Equestria, so its natural magic could protect my brain from any big changes, I’m not going to have that safety net when I change into this new, ‘unfamiliar’ form, meaning I need to mentally prepare to ensure I don’t lose myself in the facade’s psyche.

But now was not the time for stalling, now was the time for action, and so I began to charge up my energy for the transformation.

Okay, now I just need to channel the shift carefully, any sudden distractions and I risk losing myself to Katara’s brain… slowly… slowly-

MY QUEEN! THERE IS A PROBLEM!

GAH! What—oh shit…

*BWAMM!*

{New Personality}

I slowly stood up, head dizzy.

“Ugh… where am I…? Last I remember I was…”

My mind lunged forward to full clarity as I looked around, finding no Fire Nation, or any known architecture in my room.

“Where’s Aang? What’s going on? I thought we won the war, how did I get captured again??” I asked, clearly seeing through the ruse of such a nice room.

I gotta get out of here, let’s see, I can sense water in that pipe. I thought as I pulled some out and made ready to cut through the secretly reinforced door—

My Queen! Are you okay! Answer me!

Queen? Why does that feel familiar, I thought I was… no, I’m not but… what about Aang and…

As my mind began to fade, the last memory I had was of me and the one I grew to love, sharing a kiss on a balcony.

Aang…

{Personality Revert}

…

My Queen?

State your name, Drone… I messaged coldly, tears streaming from my eyes from the residual memories and emotions from the Disguise’s mind.

Um… Stag, My Queen, like the Beetle.

Stag… your news had better be important, or you won’t live to regret it.

But I thought we weren’t allowed to kill ourselves anymore—

WELL IT DOESN’T COUNT IF I KILL YOU NOW DOES IT?!

He audibly whimpered over the link in terror. Cadence broke out of the cocoon!

What?!

She managed to break out of the dream state we crafted, the mental shock waking her up to break her confines, we had to resort to holding her in a prison of crystal.

I… okay, that was pretty damn important, just find a way to keep her down there and keep her fed, if this fiasco goes sideways I either want to still have an ounce of compassion from her, or a bargaining chip against the Sisters, neither of which can happen if she’s a corpse!

Understood, My Queen.

As the link was severed, I let the blade of water drop to the ground, and broke into sobs as I had to get through all the heartache Katara left behind. “Stupid transformations and their stupid emotions! Dammiiiit!!” I cried out quietly.

It took a good while to get all that pain under control, and I finally managed to isolate bending energy from that episode… but it was hardly worth it.

Thankfully now that I had the capacity to understand bending power, and have gotten used to human brain-patterns, it was foal’s play to use Toph’s and Zuko’s transformations to find Fire and Earth Bending energies, with the other three isolated in full clarity, Aang’s form was less spiritually taxing on me, allowing me to remain in it long enough to understand Air.

Unfortunately, I had come to greatly underestimate how true some pieces of fiction were.

“And just what do you think you are trying to do, insect?” I heard an imposing voice behind me, but I stood my ground.

“Insect? I’ll have you know I am a Queen! What makes you have the right to-” I turned, staring directly into the gaze of a large owl. “...Wan Shi Tong…”

“It seems my reputation exists even in other worlds, when the keeper of great knowledge in this world sent me to reply to her brother’s message, as the Dragon was too ill to send via fire magic, the last thing I expected was a Changeling trying to mimic the Avatar.”

“Wait, you’re Owlowiscious?!”

My outburst was rather unfortunate of a reaction, as I found myself surrounded by the wings of he who knew Ten Thousand Things, with a rather more imposing form. “And how do you know that name?”

“Oh crap.”

As the head of the beast loomed towards me, eyes narrowed in hostile suspicion the predator’s breath brushing against my Carapace, fear shot through every part of me until I spoke aloud. “I’MFROMANOTHERWORLD!!”

Immediately the menacing aura of the beast relented, and he looked to return to his calm state, a gaze of interest directed at me, knowing it was a dumb move to withhold knowledge from the spirit, I began to speak of earth, how I had known of him and the Avatar’s realm through a device called a television, and how this world also shared a TV show. I talked of the portal that brought me here, and the future fated for the original owner of this form, and he listened with great interest.

“This is quite a unique world you have originated from, ‘Chrysalis’, one of many wonders, and such thought to your world by allowing them to share in your knowledge…”

Yeah… let’s just hope I didn’t have any kids witness anything inappropriate from my ‘sharing’. I thought as I realized just how incriminating those screens would be, especially since I didn’t specify what they should and shouldn’t show.

“And the discovery that Changelings need only visualize the form within their minds to assume it is indeed an interesting find, if not worrying should the other queens learn of it.”

“Wait, there are more?!”

“Five others, you are of the green hive, the others are blue, pink, red, orange and purple, like the original colors of the Elements of Harmony.”

“That sounds like something Discord would make happen just for the comparison.”

“Funny, that’s exactly what he did.”

“Wut?”

“I will grant no more, offer me a tribute of knowledge, and I might feed your curiosity.”

And with that, he proceeded to return to the size of the tiny owl I knew of to be Twilight’s ‘pet’, flying out the window with a scroll.

“...WHAT THE BU—”

Author's Note

aaaaand I cut you off! have fun waiting for more chapters and enjoy this one which is practically-

ALL. EXPOSITION.