The Scarred King's Return

From the various chatter of the drones, he could gather a few things. One, the support of the queen was starting to wane. Two, love was becoming far too scarce for his or the hive’s liking. Three, the changelings had remained unified after he was defeated. And four, the changelings are somewhere that has few loving creatures. This was a serious predicament and one that needed a solution fast, thankfully he had experience dealing with dangerous situations before.

He had also learned how much the common language had changed over the years. High Equestrian appears to have fallen out of style and has been replaced with a combination of mid and low Equestrian. Although his main source of information was from drones so the accuracy of said information is up for debate. While he was recovering and subsequently learning more about this time, Queen Chrysalis was trying to figure out how he had survived in a dead hive for Celestia only knows how long. To her knowledge, he couldn’t have survived in there for more than a few hours but there were no entrances or exits that any of her changelings could find which suggested that he had been there for a long time.

She also had to figure out who he was but she and her advisor’s efforts were met with little success due to not having any name or emblems to focus their efforts on, all that they had was the scar on his face which did help narrow down the list of possible changelings he could be. Though it didn’t narrow it down enough, turns out facial scars used to be quite popular among ancient changelings, especially among royal changelings. So both of them would simply need to wait for him to recover on his own.