Somewhere within the boundaries of Equestria, deep within a forest near the western range of the country, someone is pacing back in forth amongst a cluster of trees covered in green viscous slime. From the outside the cluster of trees looked like they were being turned into a make-shift dome, with the slime acting as a binding agent for the structure, with branches and other foliage covering it to make it look less inconspicuous to any passing by flyers. Inside the dome the former queen of the changelings, Chrysalis, was pacing back and forth with an angered expression on her face. in fact the queens face has been stuck in this infuriated look ever since she made her escape, fleeing from her own hive when the ponies came to rescue her broodmare, and that was roughly eight days from this point in time. And the queen was still furiously enraged, and why shouldn’t she.

Not only did she loose her little play mare, she lost her castle, the seat of her power, and her own species has revolted and from what she’s heard from ponies in a small town she frequents to absorb love energy, the changelings have joined the ponies and became their newest inhabitants. All of this has left the queen with virtually nothing, nothing except her anger and frustration. The queen screamed as she stomped a hole covered hoof onto the ground, causing a large spiderweb crack to form on the ground.

“Damn it! Damn it! Damn it…” the queen repeatedly screamed as she emphasized each word with another powerful stomp, further destroying the ground she was standing on.

“DAMN IT! How is it that I lost EVERYTHING! TO THOSE RIDICULOUS PONIES!” One final stomp caused the entire ground to break, nearly destroying her make-shift hideout, the trees wobbling around and nearly tipping over.

“And those wretched betrayers!” Chrysalis snarled as she just glared at a random corner of her dome.

“I spend all my life ever since I became queen taking care of them, searching for love energy to feed the ungrateful maggots, and raising them to become effective hunters! And this is how they thank me for my years of service I gave them!?”

The queen spat out a tether of green slime from her mouth, snagging a large rock in the dome, and then with her enraged strength swung the large rock around, before snapping the tether of slime sending the rock flying off into the distance. As the rock skips across the land, smashing into trees and knocking smaller ones down, the queen was taking in deep heavy breaths as her anger still boiled deep within her. how could she have lost everything in such a spectacular way, it so was mind boggling that the queen couldn’t even begin to fathom on how she lost everything. Where did she go wrong? And how could she prevented this from even happening? The queen mulled these questions over and over in her head, but no clear answer was coming to her, which only added fuel to the fire that was burning within her.

“Pathetic.” Chrysalis’s entire body went rigid as her eyes widen, and the angered expression on her face suddenly morphed to one of horror and dread as a voice broke the silence as she stood in the crater.

“And your supposed to be my successor…”

The queen slowly turned to look behind her, and standing just a few feet from her in the shadow of the dome, was the former queen of the changelings. Her own mother, Nyressia. The previous queen perfectly resembles Chryslias nearly perfectly, with the only major differences being that Nyressia’s horn curved slightly upward, has four wings protruding from her back, and her mane and tail are more reddish brown color and was even more wild and unkept than Chrysalis’s. As the old queen stood before her daughter, Chrysalis took a hesitant step back as she kept her eyes trained squarely on her mother, who took a few steps into the light revealing herself fully to her daughter. Revealing a greatly disappointing expression on her face, her eyes narrowed and glowing an ethereal orange color as she looks down her nose at her daughter. Who was now curling up like a frightened cat as looked up to the old queen.

“H-how…” Chrysalis muttered in a shaky voice as she was trying to figure out how her deseced mother was standing before her. “How could—”

“How could you be so pathetic into loosing not only your quarry, but your own kingdom as well. The kingdom that I left in your care when you ascended the throne.” Late queen Nyressia mocked as she started to circle around Chrysalis, while she shivered as still held an overly panicked expression on her her face.

“Not only that, but those grubs that are supposed to serve you have revolted against you! And even joined forces with the enemy faction. Food no less! How could you be so utterly pathetic and worthless?!” the current queen couldn’t say anything as Nyressia vanished after stepping behind Chrysalis, before appearing right in front of Chrysalis, glaring directly into the cowering queens quivering face.

“I actually had high expectations for you when you hatched from your egg, and as you grew I thought you would be a daughter I could be proud of, one I could entrust the future of our kingdom to…but as the years went by my expectations of you started to dwindle. You failed in all of your magic lessons; you were hopeless as a love harvester—in fact, you couldn’t even captivate a single pony till your ‘crown’ antenna sprouted. Honestly why I let you become my successor I’ll never know.”

As the late queen continued to ridicule her daughter, Chrysalis panicked expression very slowly changed to one of anger again, her mane and tail even started to stand on end. her wings even twitching in irritations as word after word enters her ear, each one fueling her already overly full reservoir of anger, hatred, and malice. And the fact that the image of her deceased mother was in front of her, and is insulting her role of queen, even saying that she was nothing but a failure, was quickly making the queen reach her breaking point.

“—and now here you are, alone, hiveless, nothing more than a discard piece of garbage. Cowering in this disheveled hovel like a grub hiding in its egg.”

“Shut up.” Chrysalis muttered as she glared up to her mother’s specter.

“To think I left the throne to a worthless—”

“Shut up.”

“—waste of space—”

“Shut up!”

“That I should’ve gotten rid of long ago.”

“SHUT UP!”

The over flowing anger that was being held within Chrysalis finally reached its breaking point. The queen ignited her horn with all of the stored up magic that was brimming inside of her, and in a flurry of green projectiles erupted from the queens horn, and struck where Nyressia was standing. Battering her and the ground, all the while destroying her make-shift hideout in the process. Once the bombardment of magical projectiles had ended, after a good full two minutes of suppressed rage being unleashed, Chrysalis was now barely standing as she felt incredibly exhausted. But her mother just stood there, unfazed, or affected by the bombardment, while the land around here was turned into a crater.

“You should never have been born you pathetic wretch…” the specter of the late queen started to slowly fade away till only her disapproving glare was left, until it to faded away into nothingness. Chrysalis then dropped to the ground her snarling face breaking as tears start to flow from her eyes.

“I’ll show you, mother!” Chrysalis growled as she just stared off to where the image of her mother was just standing.

“I’ll show you that I am NOT a failure! And I’ll show you that I have surpassed you, and become the greatest queen of the changeling race, that you can be sure of!” the queen then rose back up to her hooves, and started to remake her shelter, using her magic to put the trees back up, and using the green slime to hold them in place.

“I’ll build a bigger hive! Create a large, more OBIDIANT army of subjects, and I will show you that I am no failure! A waste of space! I will show you that I am worthy of being QUEEN!” the queen then looked towards the entrance of the shelter, before heading out while transforming into a young looking unicorn mare.

“And the first thing I’ll do, is get back my little broodmare…” A twisted smile then graces the queen already deranged face as the gears in her head already started to turn. “And make her help me restore my forces.”

~~Ponyville~~

A few days have gone by since Sunburst has made an improve visit to the town, to pay a visit to the towns second alicorn, Zack. And for those few days the stallion, and the pale purple alicorn, have been getting to know each other better, while the alicorn answers any questions the stallion has about the mare herself. Or the world that she originally hails from.

And for those few days, Sunburst has learnt so many things, mostly on Zack’s cultures, technology, biology, and a little bit of information on the world itself. But the alicorn never divulged into anything to substantial, which Sunburst wasn’t to bumped about, as he respected any limitations that the alicorn has set down. At the end of the stallions stay in town, Sunburst has learned a variable wellspring of foreign knowledge, which he commented on studying and see if it’s possible to adopt into pony society, which Zack remarked it would be highly unlikely, bid his new friend farewell before heading back to the Crystal Empire. The day after the stallion left nearly each of one of Zack’s circle of friends has left Ponyville for either personal reason or business.

Both Pinkie Pie and Applejack have left town to go visit family, Applejack heading to Appleloosa, and Pinkie heading home to visit her parents and sisters. Rainbow Dash has left for Cloudsdale to visit her family, which she was very adamant to try and keep a secret. Then there was Twilight and Spike, being called to Canterlot along with Thorax, as there seemed to be growing tensions between the ponies and changelings living in Canterlot. And if the reports were true, things were getting so bad that fights were breaking out, mostly because the ponies kept insulting and degrading the changelings, and the changelings keep getting egged on by them and nearly ripping their throats out. So the trio immediately left to help smooth things over, and have been there ever since. Then there was Starlight who also left town for some, personal affairs in the town that she used to, live, in.

So at the moment the only members of the Council of Friendship, and Zack’s immediate circle of friends, was Rarity and Fluttershy. Both of whom were trotting out of the Ponyville Day Spa, both looking incredibly refreshed and pampered. Even Fluttershy was glowing with a rejuvenated sense of luster, as not only was her coat glistening in the sunlight, but her feathers, mane and even tail were glistening with such a glow that ponies passing by the pegasus were left utterly speechless. While Rarity seemed very proud that her friend is looking absolutely fabulous.

“You are absolutely sparkling Fluttershy, that mineral bath has certainly done wanders for you.” Rarity complemented her friend as they both walked down the road.

“Thank you Rarity. It really was amazing how it felt, it really felt good.” Fluttershy mused as she ruffled her wings, her feathers shimmering in the light. “And thank you for paying for my spa treatment…are you sure you don’t mind spending your bits on me?”

“Of course darling! Money is never an issue for treating a friend to a day at the spa.” That’s when Rarity had an idea pop into her head.

“Speaking of treating a friend, maybe I should bring Zack to the spa for some relaxation, goodness knows the poor thing could use some.”

“That does sound like a good idea, and I bet she’s pretty lonely with Thorax, Spike, and the others gone.” Fluttershy remarked as the two mares continued to trot about.

“Perhaps I should stop by the castle, and see if she would like to join me for a spa treatment!” the pegasus looked to unicorn friend as the white mare suddenly got giddy, and a pep in her step as she trots off in a faster pace.

“But Rarity, you just went to the spa, and spent a lot of—”

“Fluttershy, Fluttershy, remember what I said.” The unicorn mused as she turned to face her friend. “When it comes to friends, money is of no issue!”

The pegasus could only giggle at her friends statement, but also admire that Rarity always went far and beyond to help not only her friend, but strangers if she believes she can help them. and not ask for anything in return. So the pegasus and unicorn detoured from their initial path down the central lane of Ponyville east district, and started to make them their way southward of the town where the castle stood off in the distance, and as the pair trotted about they started to talk on how they could help Zack out. Even after the group came back from the Empire, the only ones that seemed to be helping Zack feel more comfortable in her life in Equestria was, Spike and Throax as they are the ones that spend the most time with her, with Twilight and Starlight being second. The others have either been too busy with either their work, occupations or just couldn’t figure out on how to do just that, help their newest friend acclimate to living in Equestria. And help her through her current strife plaguing her life.

“…Rarity?” Fluttershy said in a hushed tone, but still managing to get the unicorns attention.

“Yes Fluttershy?”

“What do you think Zack should about her, pregnancy?” the pegasus asked to see if the mature mare has any idea on how Zack should go about this problem.

Personally Fluttershy believed that Zack should keep the baby. And while it would be the offspring of Chrysalis, it would be Zack and her friends raising the baby, so they could teach it to be nice and not like the mad queen, also, Fluttershy didn’t believe it would be fair to, kill, an innocent child who has yet to be born, and knows not of how it came into being. When the pegasus glanced over to her friend to see what Rarity’s thoughts were on the subject, Fluttershy saw a rather despondent look on her face, as if she seemed unsure on how to answer the question.

“Honestly Fluttershy I have no idea. On one hoof, terminating the pregnancy sounds like the more, reasonable course. After all, Zack has no actual attachment to the baby other than being the one giving birth to it…however it would also be cruel to kill an innocent yet unborn child, regardless of how it came to be.” Rarity bemoaned as a disheartened sigh left her mouth.

“I just hope that whatever Zack chooses she’ll make the right decision for her best interest.” After their little talk about Zack’s situation the two decided to shift topics, and talk about more, uplifting, subjects.

Several minutes go by and after a lengthy discussion about how to help Zack, from inviting her to picnics, taking her on trips to show the sights of their country, maybe even help her find her purpose that could make her life easier, the group eventually made it to the castle. Upon reaching the door both Rarity and Fluttershy opened a single door and was about to step in, and go search for Zack and take her to the spa for a nice day of relaxation. But the moment that the door opened, and the pair took only a few steps into the castle, both pegasus and unicorn were meet with echoing wail of pure pain! Immediately hearing the scream Rarity and Fluttershy jolted into action, running up the steps and started running through the halls of the castle looking for Zack, following the wailing screams to where they alicorn could be.

Not a minute after of running around the halls Rarity and Fluttershy came across something, a trail of green fluid staining the floor and walls. Following the trail of green fluid the two mare’s reached the library, where the painful wailing was coming from, and assaulting the pair with their full shrilling force, and when they barged into the castle’s library they found the alicorn. And she looked like she was in the most pain any pony could be in. Zack was laying on the ground, writhing in agony on her back, back legs spread as wide as they could…while green fluids spurt and ooze out from her marehood, with a small round protrusion is sticking a few inches out. Seemingly trying to wedge itself through the alicorn’s folds, which appears to be the source of her pain, and when the alicorn glanced over at the pair Rarity and Fluttershy could see the pain etched onto the poor mare’s face.

“HELP ME!” Zack sobbed to the duo as she rolled onto her side, before wincing as the thing wedged out of her folds by another inch, causing more green fluids to spurt out, but this time accompanied with blood.

“Fluttershy fly to the hospital and tell the doctors what’s happening, I’ll try to get Zack to the hospital as fast as I can!”

The pegasus wasted no time in hesitating and instantly shot into the air, and took off like a bat out of Tartarus while Rarity took Zack into her blue magical aura, and ran off towards the castles entrance. All the while the alicorn continues to cry out in agony, disrupting the once peaceful air of the town’s tranquility.

Author's Note

Well here it is folks, the resolution on what happens to the baby. now before you comment on how this seems sudden, and out of nowhere, I had this planned out at the same time I had Zack initially impregnated by Chrysalis. when I had Zack get pregnant, I spent hours coming up with ideas on how to handle this, and this is what I went with. now you'll just have to wait and see what comes up next.