My Little Pony: The Changeling of Friendship

Chrysalis; still disguised as Ver Quaero; has been spending a few days with the ponies of Ponyville. Strangely, but probably not surprising, is how open they were to someone they have never met. Still, she has noticed the abundance of love in the air, and not the kind that would give changelings the most energy. But with this much on a constant basis was enough to balance that out.

Could the simple happiness that occurs when ponies do what they love doing be what my husband meant by how changeling and Ponies could live in peace? Chrysalis said.

"Oh, there you are miss Ver Quaero." A female voice called out to her. It was Rarity.

"Oh hello. Rarity, right?" Chrysalis asked.

"That's me. It occured to me that being on the road a lot must not give you a lot of time to browse for a nice dress for formal occasions. And as Ponyville's resident fashionista, I take it upon myself to fix this delimma." Rarity said before starting to dragging the disguised Chrysalis to her store.

"Gah! You don't have to drag me to your store. I could use some time off while I process the information I've gathered." Chrysalis said. It would also give me an opportunity to study Rarity under normal circumstances. She thought to herself.

Several hours pass in the day, and soon Rarity had Chrysalis in what the later could only describe one way...

"This dress...it's..." Chrysalis said. "The only way I can describe it is breathtaking." She added. "If only I had the founds neccesary to purchase it." Chrysalis stated.

"This one is on the house dearling; after all, you would need it more then I ever could." Rarity said.

"Generous to a fault I see..." Chrysalis observed.

"What was that?" Rarity asked.

"Nothing." Chrysalis said and soon put the dress in a bag before returning to her temporary home. She put the dress away and headed back out. The experince with Rarity only made things seem more likely that her husband saw that ponies and changelings could live in peace so long as changelings didn't pray upon ponies. Is that really all there is though? Surely the answer has to be more then just this. Chrysalis thought to herself.

"Hey there." A new female voice said to her, this one belonged to Applejack.

Oh great. Why her? Why the resident lie detector? Chrysalis thought to herself. "Um...hi. Applejack, right?" Chrysalis asked.

"That's me. Ah was just wondering if yer finding everything good so far during yer stay here." Applejack said.

"Actually, to be frank, I have found everything doing great so far. It's just that, I'm not sure if I've found the full answer yet." Chrysalis said.

"The answer that your looking for right?" Applejack asked. Chrysalis nodded.

"There is a question I am looking for the answer to, and while I have discovered some information, what information I have gathered can't answer the one question I have." Chrysalis said.

"And what question is that? I would like to know that, at the least." Applejack said.

"...Promise you won't tell anyone else?" Chrysalis asked.

"Cross my heart and hope to fly, stick a cupcake in my eye." Applejack said, going through the motions. "It's a Pinkie Pie Promise, and I will stick with it. Otherwise Pinkie Pie will never let me live it down." She added.

"I see. Well the answer I am looking for revolves around the Battle of Junction Hill. Specifically, why did Amare choose to sacrifice his own life to allow a single pony to live? I need to know the answer for reasons I still can't tell you, but I will in time." Chrysalis said.

"And you think you have some kind of answer, but your not sure it's enough." Applejack said.

"That's right." Chrysalis said.

"Well, I'm no expert on stuff like this. Perhaps you should talk with Fluttershy; she might be able to give you a clue or two." Applejack said.

"I see. I understand." Chrysalis said and then left.

"...What is she still hiding?" Applejack asked herself.

Chrysalis did indeed go to Fluttershy's that day. And the pegasus was more then happy to shed some light on the subject. Still under the disguise of Ver Quearo, the changeling queen had asked the caring pegasus all about what she thought about Amiticia and how accepting everypony seemed to be of him after the attack on canterlot.

The answer quite surprised her.

It's because Amiticia chose to help Twilight out when Ponyville was taken over by a possessed Trixe Lunamoon; a former traveling showmare; who was wearing an Alicorn Amulet. Both Twilight and Amiticia worked together to fool Trixie Lunamoon into thinking a simple rock Twilight had as a necklace was more powerful then the Alicorn Amulet. But the reality is it was just a rock the Zebra known as Zecora made to trick Trixie and because of Amiticia having to reveal himself as a changeling to help Twilight out, the town praised him because without his help, the town would forever be under the control of a possed pony.

This all came full circle as Chryaslis was sure she had the answer now.

Since Ponies produced such high concentrations of constant happiness by doing the things they love, a changeling could live beside them in peace and use the constant happiness produced by Ponies without endangering their lives. But that can only happen if Ponies are happy. So if something threatens that happiness, changelings can assist ponies in dealing with the threat and restore happiness.

Chrysalis had her answer: Her husband sacrificed his own life, because it was better to let ponies be happy then let them die. Because if ponies died or lost their happiness, they would no longer be good for a constant food source.

The answer was staring her in the face ever since she noticed Amiticia together with these ponies, and her shortsighted nature forced her to only see one side of the exchange: The changeling side.

But now that's she gotten to know these ponies the way her husband probably did, then she knows what she must do.

Come the next threat, it's time for the queen to join her king.

TO BE CONTINUED