I am the Queen

She has arrived in the caverns. I send my praetorian out to find her, and guide her back to me. She needs to speak to Cadence, and they must get back to the wedding quickly.

Twilight fell into darkness. She couldn't see anything because it was so dark. She lit her horn with a small amount of light, and the room started to glow. She calls out.

"Hello." But receives only an echo. She gets up and starts to move forward.

"Is anypony out there?" She calls out, before slamming into a wall.

Pulling back, she looks at the wall. On it, she sees her reflection. She brightens her horn, and sees more of her reflection around the room.

Then, laughing is heard from all around. Looking around, panicked, Twilight asks.

"Where am I?" The wall behind her suddenly has multiple reflections of Cadence surrounding her.

"The caves beneath Canterlot. Once used by greedy unicorns who claimed the gems they found inside. But right now, its your prison." Twilight looks around at the reflections in fear.

"HELP! HELP!!!" she yells, starting to run wildly. The evil Cadence laughs gleefully.

"It's no use," she says as her reflection appears on some crystals closer to Twilight, "no one can hear you. And no one will think to look for you either." Her reflection disappears, and reappears elsewhere, on another set of crystals.

"Most ponies have forgotten these caves still exist." Her reflection starts to randomly appear and disappear as she continues talking.

"This is the ideal place to keep anypony that tries to interfere with my plan." She starts to laugh maniacally, and Twilight is mortified.

"Plans? What plans?" She says, looking at multiple Cadences. The Cadences look at Twilight with a mischievous grin.

"The plans I have for your brother of course, and for all of Canterlot. Isn't it obvious?" She says, laughing once again. Twilight gets angry, and starts to charge her horn, and says.

"Don't you dare do anything to my brother!!!" She screams, and again Cadence seems unafraid, laughing at Twilight.

"Then try and catch me." She says, then her reflections start to run down corridors and passageways, Twilight blasting at the reflections. Cadence is giggling the entire time, taunting her and angering her more and more.

The reflections turn a corner, and Twilight rushes around it, and falls of a cliff. As her scream starts to fill the caverns with its noise, Cadence laughs, and her reflections disappear.

Twilight continues to fall, and then she is grabbed by something. Her fall stops, but she keeps screaming, until a claw like hand is put over her mouth, and her screams are muted. Trying to look around, she cant see anything, but when she tries to lite her horn, a claw flicks it, and it causes her to stop and try to get rid of the pain by rubbing it. That's when she realizes her arms are being held, and she panics more.

Then a hissing sound is heard, and she stops, looking around. The entity that holds her, moves her and adjusts her, and then she can feel them moving quickly, climbing over and around the passageways like it was born here.

After a moment, Twilight can feel the change in air, as if they had entered a large room. She looks around, and she can see better than before. Everything isn't sunlight bright, but she can see as if it is twilight, a gray dusk light coming from all around. The shadows in the corners of the room, look to be moving, and she can hear a clicking sound coming from all around. The creature holding her sets her on her hooves, and when she turns around to get a look at it, it is already in the shadows. Then, a much louder hiss comes forth from the darkness around her, and the noise stops instantly.

It stays quite for seceveral minutes, before Twilight hears a hiss from the dark again. After that, she feels a presence, trying to enter her mind. Quickly, she tries to throw up a magic barrier against it, but it attacks, and says one word, in a motherly but stern voice.

"Stop."

Twilight stops trying to cast the spell around her mind, and listens. She can somehow feel, from the one word, the age and power of the entity talking to her.

"Listen."

Twilight nods. She doesnt know what is happening, but this entity knows what we is doing.

"I am not going to hurt you. I am not going to kill you. I am going to help you. Your foalsitter, was abducted. She is here, safe with me. Your friends, where misguided, and blinded by the imposter. They are not to blame, for your imprisonment in my caves. The imposter is. My children will fight for you, and protect your kind. Equestria will not fall. You two are needed at the wedding, and my children will escort you out. I will be joining the ceremony shortly."

A hiss filled the chamber, quickly turning into a screeching roar, and the noise in the room started again. Twilight looked around frantically, and saw shadows part, and Cadence came into view out of them.

Her eyes were panicky, and she saw Twilight, and started to struggle in the weird cocoon she was held in. The shadows moved, and she was cut down. She tore the gag she had out of her mouth, and says.

"Twilight. How did you get here? What is happening? What are these things?" She had ran over to Twilight, and they were hugging. Twilight could tell, by the look in this Cadences eyes, that she was the reason Cadence.

"You remember me." Twilight says happily, holding her sitter from her youth in her arms.

"Of course I remember my favorite filly. I would never foget you. But please, we ned to go, we need to get out of here before they capture us again." Twilight shakes her head.

"Don't worry, they apparently know what is happening, and is going to help us." She is then grabbed by a tail, and lifted into the air. She gave a yelp, and hears another from nearby, and can see the creatures now.

"Xenomorphs!" Twilight gasps.

"Xeno-what?" Cadence says, still panicked about what is happening.

"Xenomorphs. I've only seen one, but theres almost a hundred here. How did this happen?" Suddenly, they are off, crawling through the caves at high speed.

"Twilight, where are they taking us?" Twilight replies.

"They are taking us to save Shining Armor." She says. To herself, she says.

"Hang on everyone, we're coming to save you."

It was time for me to emerge. I will help. I promised myself I would, and I will not back out now. I turn to my praetorian, and hiss out for him to help free me from my self imposed prison. He screeches a response, and comes over to me.

Lovingly, he nuzzles me, and then starts to use his extra sharp claws to cut my wrists. I hissed lowly, in pain, and he continued. My blood poured from the wounds, and started to eat through the web like substance. A few moments later, they were so weak I was able to snap right through them.

For the first time in three thousand years, I stood. I towered over my guard, and rose to my full 7.5 meter height. My guard, as a praetorian, would be larger than normal xenomorphs to begin with, was the size of an actual queen. I am the size of the empress, without all the scars and wrinkles of the actual empress. I was not to the size of the great queen mother, a colossal 15.2 meters, but I would be there eventually.

I stretched myself out, and worked out the kinks in my carapace. I am ready to go.

I turn to my guard, the deathclaw xeno, and tell him to lead me to just under the throne room. I would make my entrance there. And so he started to lead me, me running along behindnhim, smashing through crystal and rock with my head crest, and my body.

I will get Chrysalis, and end her reign as queen.

Twilight and Cadence were lead outside, with only the two xenomorphs being with them. They were outside the front doors to the castle, and could hear the vows being said. They rushed in, and quickly ran as fast as they could to the throne room.

Celestia was just getting to the end, about to pronounce them mare and colt. They renewed their run, and reaxhed the doors. Throwing them open, Twilight yelled out.

"WAIT!!!" Everyone turned to look, and they all looked unhappy Twilight was once again stopping the wedding. The fake Cadence got angry.

"What, why is she here?" She says angrily, but when she sees Celestia looking at her, shw starts to cry crocodile tears.

"Why does she keep wanting to ruin my perfect day?" And then another voice, the same voice as the one who just spoke, say.

"Because its not your special day." Everyone looks back to the door. They gasp, seeing another Cadence, standing there.

"It's mine." Cadence says, stepping forward. Everypony in the audience gasps. Two Cadences. What's going on?

Cadenve was stunned.

"What, how did you escape the caverns?" She says angrily.

Twilight and Cadence look at each other, and smile.

Suddenly, everyone in the room felt a sharp jab at their concious. A voice hissed, and it's power was untold, it's age unfathomable.

"They escaped because something far older than you has nested in the deep. Something far older, and knows far more than you has been watching, waiting, for the moments it knew it would need to help. And my children, are hungry." it hisses through everyponies mind, and everypony looks around to find the possible source of the voice. Cadence is looking pissed.

"You call me young. I am almost 1300 years old, nothing, not even the princessess, are older than me" ponies in the room have started to flee, wanting to get out, feeling the presence anger welling up. Celestia steps forward.

"This doesnt matter, what are you, if not Cadence?" Cadene turns to Celestia.

"Shes a changing. They take the form of a loved one, and feed of that love for them." Cadence says. Cadence turns to her, and starts to laugh.

"Correct. And since i no longer need this disguise." She says, anx suddenly a burning ring of green fire surrounds her, and covers her form. When it dies, standing there is a black pony, with insect like wings, and holes in her body. Her horn is twisted, and her skin is continuous. She opens her eyes, and starts to laugh.

"Oh, it fels good to let my wings out." Celestia gasps, then growls at her.

"Chrysalis. I should have known." And Chrysalis laughs.

"And that's the funny part. Twilight was right all along. She saw through my disguise the second she first met me, and knew I wasnt really Cadence. And yet, not one of you believed her." She laughs maniacally. The mane 5, Celestia, and Spike look shocked. She was right, none of them believed her. The 5 turn to her, and say.

"Where sorry Twilight." She just smiles at them. Chrysalis looks at Celestia.

"Soon, my children will invade, and Canterlot will fall. And once this dreadful city has crumbled, the rest of Equestria will follow." She laughs again. Celestia moves to stop her.

"Not if I can stop you first." And she charges her horn. Firing a beam of pure solar energy at Chrysalis, Chrysalis responds with a beam of magic back. The two collide, and Celestia pushes on Chrysalis's magic. But Chrysalis smiles, and puts more power into her horn. The beam starts to head towards Celestia, and burns her horn. Celestia is thrown from the strength of the magic attack, and falls on the floor at the feet of the elements. Celestia weakly looks to them, and says.

Vyou need to run. Find the elements, and use them to fight the ch anglings." And she slumps over. Twilight and them run, as Chrysalis laughs, and sends guards after them.

The girls run through the castle, and make it outside. Just as the barrier protecting Canterlot breaks, and hundreds of changlings swarm the city. They all run, and head towards the branch of the castle that holds the vault the elements are stored in.

Getting close, they are surrounded by changlings. They fight them.off, and make it to the doors of the branch. But when they open them, they see all a bunch of changlings inside. All with something on their face.

The 6 ponies head inside, and look at each changlings face. They all have some sort of creature on them, with a tail curled around th neck. It is deathly silent in the room, as the girls make their way to the vault. Opening it, they find the elements to be gone, and a large hole dug into it from the outside. Suddenly, the girls are grabbed from behind, and they see that some of the changlings in the room have woken. They are captured.

Chrysalis laughs at the captured Cadence.

"I can't believe the love this fool has for you has let me best Celestia. And soon, the elements shall be useless against me as well." Spike yells at her.

"Oh yeah, I bet Twilight and the others have already got them and are on their way back." Chrysalis smiles at him.

"Oh really? How can they bave them, when they are right here?" She then brings out the chest from the vault, and shows it to Spike. Spike just gasps, and then shoots some fire at her. Chrysalis blocks it with a shield, and the changlings near her caccoon Spike in a hard green substance, and attach it to the roof.

Just after, the doors to the room open, and the changlings bring in the mane 6. Chrysalis just laughs again.

"And just like that, nothing can stop me." And suddenly, the presence from before comes swelling back up, and everyone gets a headache from it.

"Little changling, you think you have won, but you fail to see the grand scale. Look out the windows, look at the changlings that brought in the 6, and you will see, you have won nothing." Chrysalis growled.

"I am not afraid of some voice. Show yourself, or are you a coward, hiding in the shadows?" The presence laughs.

"The shadows, are where I and my kind live. They, are our ally. And I, am their queen." a hissing sound fills the entire throne room, and a loud banging sound is heard from everywhere.

"You think yourself queen, when you know nothing about ruling. You think your not afraid, but you have never met me. You should start to be afraid, as my children have already arrived, and they will burst forth in moments." suddenly, the changlings holding the 6, start to groan, and then collapse screaming. The girls move away from them, and watch.

Suddenly, all of their chests heave of their own accord. The changlings are screaming, and suddenly, the chest of one burst open from the inside. Then all the others have the same happen, and creatures break through the chests. Covered in the blood of the changlings, the little xenomorphs screech. And suddenly, they disappear from the chests.

Chrysalis looks on, as does everypony in the room, horrified and disgusted.

"What abomination was that?" She asks. The presence hisses, and the entire throne room does too.

"My children have birthed, and you will join your children shortly." Chrysalis starts to look around, and yells out.

"I am tired of this. Show yourself, abomination." The banging heard before gets louder, and the presence says.

"Very well." and the floor explodes.

I rise from the hole me and my guard created, and turn towards the changling. Chrysalis sees me, and her face blanched. Her chitin grows white, and her eyes grow wide.

"Oh god." She says. And then, everypony else sees me. Twilight is the first to recognize me.

"The Xenomorph queen. That must be the queen. Shes the one who saved us in the caverns." I turn to "look" at everyone around, my semses helping me see them all. I then turn to Chrysalis, and let out a loud shriek. Chryalis is scared, I can smell it.

"Young welp, you are no queen. You are a false queen. But rejoice, for you will birth a new queen child for me."

I then grab her, and she starts to flail in my grip, shooting me with magic bolts tha slide off my armor like water over a ducks back. I grab her head, and from on my back, a royal facehugger crawls forward. I say one last thing to Chrysalis.

"Rejoice, Chrsalis, for your death will be in the bringing of a new life." and the Royal facehugger crawls on her, wrapling it's tail around her throat, and clamping its claws over her face. I then hand the body off to my guard, and he jumps back into the crystal caverns.

I turn to face the room, and they all are scared. I look out the window, and say to them all.

"My children have saved your kingdom. I have waited for three thousand years for this day. We will dispose of the bodes, but fifty living changlings have been left behind, and another fifty have been used to birth more of more of my children. I am sorry you all had to see that, but I did what had to be done." I turn to Twilight.

"Do not blame your friends for mistrusting you, nor your teacher for the same mistake. They were fooled, and led on by Chrysalis. They are not at fault, for anything that has happened." she nods, still scared. I reach to the ceiling, nd grab the two cacoons, pulling them down. I then cut them open, and free Celestia and Spike. Celestia looks at me.

"Are you truly the Xenomorph queen?" I nod, and he continues.

"Then, I speak for Equestria, in saying thank you for helping us. Please though, can you tell me what you meant by saying you are older than us? Chrysalis is young, but me and my sister are almost 2500 years old." I hiss in laughter, and say.

"I have been alive for 3217 years. Your castle in the everfree, I had built. I have been in the crystal caverns for all those years, and have been shaping this nation through the pony tribes here before you. The last of those tribes, died to birth my first child. You saw his remains in the castle." Celestia nods.

"Again, I thank you for helping us, and hope we can have a partnership that lasts for many years to come." I nod, and then turn to leave. Before I do, I say one last thing.

"I will leave only a few drones behind, to guard you. For all my guiding of your civilization, ponies will still have tendencies of violence. The 6 will be protected, as will the two princesses. Do not look for the drones, you won't find them, but they will be there, always watching. Goodbye, till we meet again." and I jump back into the caverns below.