Transference

It took a while for me to overcome the awkwardness of the situation that I had maneuvered myself into again.

Chrysalis had gone back to her cage and was now judging us silently, lying on her folded hooves. It looked like she still had some trust issues to overcome regarding me. Almost like some traumatized mutt from an animal shelter that had been taken into a new home. But we were making progress fast if what happened was anything to go by.

I smiled at her brightly, only to receive a bloodcurdling hiss in response.

Well, maybe not that fast...

She had gone to town on Luster like a wild animal, taking her innocence with her unholy tongue in the process, judging by the faint traces of blood around the bug's mouth.

The sight of Luster's messy entrance reminded me a bit of her cutie mark. She didn't seem to mind it at all, though. Quite the opposite, Chrysalis and I had sensed it both on our own before.

Sitting on her soaked seat, she was still heavily panting, head back in her neck, looking up at the ceiling with unfocused eyes. It was probably going to take a moment for her to calm down after her bug-induced climax.

She had been herself through the whole ordeal. I knew that for a fact. I couldn't have hoped for Luster Dawn to turn out to be this way... What was I supposed to do with her now? I couldn't just dispose of her like the others. It would have been a huge waste of potential.

The unicorn captain died just a moment ago, his slowly cooling corpse now lying on the still sobbing pegasus mare. There was no need for me to hold her down by force anymore. She was totally petrified by what had happened earlier. The muffled sounds of her crying mixed in with the constant hum of the airship's propellers and made for quite the annoying background noise.

Touching her with my dark aura, I took over to shut her up. Her body was mostly unharmed and I'd still require a puppet crew from here on onwards. Together with Luster and the two remaining griffons on deck, it should give off a believable front of a diverse crew for the remaining transfer and handover to the changelings. Looks like the pegasus just got promoted by sleeping herself to the position of captain, even if unwillingly so.

Unfortunately, I wasn't able to keep control over more than a hoofful of souls, which also needed to be in close proximity to me, so I couldn't keep too many potential connections anyway. That limitation had been the main reason for me to come here to free Chrysalis once more in the first place. I had realised that I needed allies if I wanted to accomplish my goals.

Her changeling drones, following willingly or under control through one single hive mind would be an ideal network to spread coordinated chaos through the land. That was my theory, at least...

Otherwise, Twilight and Luna would always be quick enough to extinguish the little fires I laid down. It was all too slow for it to take any meaningful and long-term effect in Equestria. Total disharmony would not be achieved efficiently the way I had been doing things until now, I feared. Twilight had preached her ideology of friendship and harmony too well for that to happen this easily, and the roots had grown strong over the time of her influence.

I noticed that Luster had finally come back to her senses as she looked at me with big eyes.

"Ehm, hello, Luster Dawn, correct?" I asked her. "Care to explain your little... eh.." I nodded my head to the side to Crysalis and the two guards on the ground, making it more clear what I meant.

Luster's head turned crimson as she answered, "It's just... It's hard to explain, really," she said, looking away to the side. There was a mix of fear and excitement coming from her.

I turned her head back to me with my hoof stretched out, looking straight into her eyes. "Try explaining it, we have plenty of time." I smiled at her with a creepy expression, fangs bared.

Of course, I already knew and could have easily taken her over again to confirm it once more, but this was so much more fun.

Instead of a vocal answer, she moved her muzzle closer to mine, trembling while doing so, playfully nipping at my lower lip.

"Oooh, that's cheating!" I chuckled, letting it happen nonetheless.

She let go of my lips and moved her mouth further, to the side of my head, to continue using her lips and tongue on my ears, so skillfully, licking them clean as can be.

"Mhmm, didn't know I needed that in my life." I sighed in pleasure, losing my concentration.

Then she bit into my right ear with force, blood sprinkled on her face.

I screamed out in surprise, "AHWAhaa! You bucking BITCH!" I punched her in the belly making her keel over. "God damn it, Luster..."

Pretty sure she had peed herself a bit from the blow, but she was already looking up at me again, gracing me with a disturbing smile, a bloody piece of my right ear between her teeth. "Worth it," she mumbled with her mouth full, chuckling while holding her belly in pain.

My ear would take a while to heal. But I for sure had received a satisfying answer from her. That mare was something else... What were the odds for somepony like her in this pastel pony world?

Chrysalis gave me a disgusted sideways glance, putting her tongue out while she did.

"Fine, you can be my student. No... faithful pet!" I declared, looking down at her. "So not much of a difference of what you had before with Twilight, really."

She looked up at me, wagging her tail in response. "YES! This is going to be so much more fun than mere friendship lessons, finally..." Luster looked truly happy at the prospect of her new, and likely deranged, life to come.

Having that settled, I made my way over to Chrysalis' open cage.

Before I could say anything, she made one thing clear to me, "I will not be your pet, whoever you are. I'd rather off myself, as Tirek did!"

"Easy there, that was not why I'm here for!" I assured her. "But since you brought it up..."

She hissed at me again. Her horn started to glow and her back was up in defense like some stray cat.

"Just kidding!" I chuckled. "My name is Medley." I graced her with a quick bow. "I'm looking for allies, Queen Chrysalis, that's why I have freed you once more. I need you and your drones."

Chrysalis shook her head and sighed. "You might not know this, but I have long lost my title and subjects. I am no longer a queen. It all belongs to that rainbow moose now, King Thorax."

I nodded and looked at her with a smile. "I'm well aware, and that's why I have a proposition to make to change it all. Including true vengeance at everypony that did you wrong."

It seemed as if I had her attention, at least for the time being.