Hatched.

Chapter 5 – Rebirth.

She lay on the ground, breathing heavily as she felt in insides burning. The pain was immense. She could hear Princess Celestia screaming as Twilight Sparkle’s eyes became foggy. She saw a black shadow pass her vision, followed by a yellow and pink pair. She wanted to curl up and die.

She felt something push itself out of her marehood, a dozen little things slipping out on the floor. She was giving birth to those cursed eggs inside her. She felt someone picking her up, Celestia’s screaming and everyone’s shouting overwhelming her. She closed her eyes. After what seemed hours, the fogginess cleared.

Twilight opened her eyes to find that she was laying on her bed. She sat up, rubbing a hoof on her forehead. She looked down from her bed, seeing a group of changelings buzzing around a group of larva, a group of ponies watching nearby. It was night-time now, Twilight noted, looking out the window. She got up from her bed, pushing the sheets aside before flying down to figure out what was going on. When she landed downstairs, she noticed that only Fluttershy, Spike and Celestia remained in the room, sipping tea in the corner. “Princess Celestia. What are you still doing here?” Twilight spoke softly, hints of suspicion evident. Twilight moved forward, with each hoof step calculated.

“I remained to make sure you were okay, my little pony.” Celestia responded, with a motherly voice. Twilight flinched back, eyes narrowing. She moved around Celestia to talk to Spike.

“What else happened?” She questioned, leaning closely. Fluttershy remained silent, pouring herself another cup of tea.

“You gave birth to those changelings. Quite suddenly actually. A-Are you okay, Twilight?” Spike replied in a hushed tone. Twilight wanted to curl up and die but that wouldn’t be the right thing to say. So instead, Twilight just mumbled a ‘yeah’, turning to the changelings.

“My Queen.” The closest changeling spoke, noticing her. It startled her at first until Twilight realized she had just killed the Queen. She was the successor, the Proto-queen. She looked at the larva then at the guards surrounding her. One of the larva was squirming towards her. Twilight picked up the larva with her magic, sitting down on the ground. She cradled the little creature in her hooves carefully as more began to crawl over her, getting into the holes in her hooves. She smiled. Perhaps she could do this.

She summoned the General of the Hive, who was in this small group, telepathically. A changeling guard who went by the name Thistle moved forward. He was large, about the size of a normal Big Mac. His left ear was shredded and he had a few scars dotting in black shell. He bowed to her before Twilight spoke.

“General Thistle, come with me to speak to Princess Celestia.” Twilight spoke. The General nodded. Twilight passed the newborn to another changeling before she rose from the ground, the other larva falling out and landing softly onto the ground. She walked back over to Celestia, sitting down on a chair. General Thistle sat down next to her, looking at the Princess in front of him. Celestia nodded to Spike and Fluttershy who both left the room, heading towards the kitchen. There was a knock on the broken door before it opened and Princess Luna stepped inside. Luna entered silently, sitting down beside Celestia before speaking.

“Good Evening, Princess Twilight Sparkle or should I say Queen Twilight Sparkle and changeling. I have heard of thy horrid news.” Luna spoke solemnly. She still spoke in old Equestrian which sometimes confused Twilight yet the Princess of the night seemed to be using more modern vocabulary than she did prior. Twilight crossed her hooves before speaking.

“I don’t want to bring up what happened.” She hissed, tongue flicking as she spoke. She felt ashamed that she had fallen for Chrysalis’s ploys again, that she did what she did to Celestia. It sickened her. But it also seemed to please the changeling, knowing that Celestia was getting weak in her old age. Something about that thought told Twilight something was wrong but she decided to ignore it. She took a deep breath, placing her fore hooves onto the table in front of her. “I don’t know what to do anymore.” She groaned, slamming her head onto the table. The changeling beside Twilight just sat there, feeling awkward.

“Why don’t thy tell us what occurred for the beginning.” Luna spoke. Twilight lifted her head, nodding.

“It happened nine months ago. Chrysalis kidnapped me in the middle of the night, taking me back to the Hive. She held me in one of the lower chambers, chained and restrained with changeling resin. Changeling resin is extremely strong, we use it for building. I’m getting off track aren’t I?” She chuckled grimly before resuming her tale. “She came in and started to talk about how she was going to turn me into a changeling. She bit me in the shoulder, paralysing my body. She encased me into a cocoon before she took over my mind, putting me in that cursed trance. She made me have sex with her it’s the only way to make a changeling out of a pony.

”The Queen has to fill the pony with Royal Jelly while they’re in a cocoon. I woke up in the cocoon later before I broke out of it. She was there again. She ordered one of the guards to escort me to my new chambers. She then ordered me to come to her chambers where she made me she asked me what I thought of you, Celestia. I gave her my answer.

“She slapped me across the muzzle when my answer didn’t please her. She then put me into another trance, this time, altering some of my memories. Afterwards she asked me some more questions, I didn’t remember anything before then. I wanted to please her. I asked her to have sex with me.” Twilight smiled faintly at the memory, the Princesses besides her listening in disgust. “She filled me with her eggs before. She left me in my chambers. The next day, she came into my chambers and did it again, she had sex with me again and again. Every day.” She stopped for a moment, allowing Thistle to speak as she sighed once more. She placed her head against the wooden table once more, just listening.

“My name is General Thistle. I have lived in the Hive for many years. I was part of the attack on Canterlot. After the failed attack, we were all plunged into starvation. Many of our elders died and only the guards and Chrysalis got to consume any love, leaving the scraps to everyone else. It was a horrid time. Chrysalis punished all those who failed by killing or torturing them. My brood mother and many of my siblings died during that time. We were living off of the bare minimum until our new Queen was taken.” Thistle recounted, looking sorrowful and angry. Twilight rose her head, prepared to speak again.

“I was still half of a pony. For three months until I completely became a changeling. It was a process. She used that to feed herself and the Hive a little. I was sent after four months of being in the Hive to Ponyville, in my old form, to get love.” Twilight’s eyes were alight with emotion, she sat there with an air of confidence. “Which brings us almost up to speed. Even though I hate Chrysalis for turning me into this, I have to do something. They’re still my subjects.”

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Celestia had sat there the entire time in silence, so had Luna. She hadn’t known the full extend to what had happened to Twilight. Celestia felt a pang of guilt in the fact she had done nothing to find or help Twilight. She had read the note that was left, ignoring the red flags that cost her so dearly. She had watched how Twilight had handled the small larva before and how Twilight held herself now, even with the pain of the torture she had been through. She understood what had happened to these creatures, forced to live under a tyrannical rule either dying at Chrysalis’s hooves or of starvation.

She turned to her sister with a look of guilt on her face. Luna nodded to the silent question. “Twilight, you can keep the changelings here. I hope our two kingdoms can enter a time of peace.” Celestia spoke, almost as if she was addressing a diplomat from another country. Twilight looked surprise, almost as if she hadn’t thought of it nor did she expect it. General Thistle also looked startled.

“There hasn’t been peace between our kinds for over a century. Our elders told stories of a time before our pain and suffering.” Thistle hissed. Twilight glanced around the library. Many of the books were ruined, one of the windows was shattered and there were scotch marks as well as a few unpleasant fluids on the ground.

“We’ll have to rebuild the library. The entry to the Hive can be from the basement and we can build it underground. I can see how this can work. Yet it will be difficult transporting the young. Hmm.” Twilight rambled to herself as she pondered the idea. She turned back to the Princesses. “We will settle here. On the condition that we are allow to collect and gather love as long as we don’t harm anypony.” Twilight held out a hoof. Celestia looked at Twilight who was surprisingly calm.

“As long as you’re not harming anypony.” Celestia shook it, agreeing to the terms. Luna nodded as well. Celestia rose from her seat, Luna following close behind. Celestia walked to the door, glancing back at Twilight before she left. “Good luck, my student.” She spoke softly, watching Twilight lifting up another larva with her magic.