Revenge

Chrysalis morphed into her Starlight form and was about to trot into the school, when she decided to change her disguise last-minute. She switched to Twilight, knowing it would be safer to play as the do-gooder, the former Headmare of the School, than the former guidance counsler, who was ruining everything as for right now. Ruining Starlight's good reputation was pretty simple.

Everyone thought she was cold-blooded, and maybe some of that came from her being a changeling, not a trustworthy creature like a pony of some sort. But she had good intentions. She had a good perspective. She did care for others, love them, miss them. Her hive. She loved her hive, and they were good enough for her. They cared for her, served her, and now they were gone. She truly did miss them. It was too bad they were gone.

Starlight Glimmer! That stupid Starlight Glimmer! How could she forget? Starlight Glimmer was the one who had turned her hive against her, who had changed their opinions on love. And most of all, she made everyone betray her. Was she really the hero? And what about her accomplices. If she had to be honest, Chrysalis didn't think the blue unicorn pony did much at all. Neither did the draconequus. They were just there for moral support and distractions. Why bother to bring them along if they just get in the way? Starlight Glimmer would have succeeded without them just fine.

In short, Starlight Glimmer, the evil mastermind who took away other's utopias without even caring. Though, she did have one other partner with her. He was a very... well... disturbing associate. His name? Thorax.

Thorax was a changeling like her and the rest of her hive, but something felt off about him since the day he was born. He was actually more like a puny pony than a changeling. He was always the one who sided with what the ponies had to say about love and friendship. He was the one who was set apart from the others. His fate was set in stone, and that was just about the opposite of what he wanted. And he would've been unhappy, maybe even when he ran away from the hive, if it weren't for Starlight Glimmer.

Starlight Glimmer turned his life around. She made him colorful, brilliant, kinder, just like she did with the other changelings. But luckily, Chrysalis managed to get revenge on them, both of them. In these past few days, Chrysalis had gotten really lucky.

Getting revenge on Thorax was easy; she managed to do that in a day without thorough planning. But still, there was no doubt it was going to be hard for Starlight Glimmer's revenge. But finally, after relentless weeks of espionage, she had come to a crystal clear conclusion: you could easily get under Starlight Glimmer's skin. Just make her emotional. And so, she did. Not that she wasn't already. She sat down on Twilight's seat, which she considered a throne, and thought back to that one night where she started her long run for vengeance.

Chrysalis levitated herself into Starlight's room through the window. It was literally midnight. Starlight Glimmer was peacefully sleeping, though not too peacefully, as there she was frowning. Chrysalis hadn't expected an easy catch, but tranquility or not, she would do anything to get her revenge on Starlight Glimmer.

Starlight was in bed, attempting to forget about the troubles that had arised today. But not for long. She snuck up to her bed, then levitated Starlight, who shreiked. You fool! Chrysalis thought. You'll get us caught! She shook her head and threw her out the window. She then took Starlight's form and went to the window to see what was happening, though, it was very dark, making it impossible to see anything.

She honestly didn't care if Starlight died. One less enemy to worry about. But she knew that Starlight wasn't going to be dying anytime soon. She would be saved by the changeling drone waiting outside. The spell would work eventually, but just not right now. Whatever. Just more pain for Starlight Glimmer to experience before she took the final blow.

Chrysalis heard the door open and turned around to see Princess Twilight standing there, a shocked and concerned face on. Queen Chrysalis was nervous, in the chance that she might be caught, but she tried her best not to show it. "Are you okay, Starlight?" the princess asked. A wave of relief washed over her. She now knew that Twilight wasn't suspicious of her.

She quickly nodded and came up with a fib. "Just a nightmare."

"About leading the school?" Twilight questioned, something school-related clearly on her mind.

Chrysalis gaped. Her? Afraid of leading the school? Then, she realized she was taking the role of Starlight Glimmer. Was Starlight Glimmer, a powerful unicorn who could reform a whole hive, afraid of leading a school? Chrysalis broke into laughter just at the thought of it. "Afraid? Of leading the school? Seriously?”

"Well if you are, you can talk to me about it,” she offered, seemingly confused. Chrysalis shook her head and climbed onto her bed. Seeing this, Twilight probably suspected she wanted to sleep, and left Starlight's room. Chrysalis sighed a big breath of relief and waited until she heard Twilight's footsteps heading away from the door. Then, she rushed over to the window to see what was happening. It was no good, though, still too dark. So, she flew out of the window, making sure to close it behind her.

Chrysalis sighed, filled with nostalgia, flipping through Twilight's papers. After what seemed like an eternity of searching, she found what she was looking for: the changeling file.

Hopefully, the file would have some information on colorful changelings, or at least how to handle it. She looked at the name: Ocellus. She recalled a changeling named Ocellus, but she was very low-ranking. She was just a drone, not a guard or anything special. If she recalled correctly, she was almost as bad as Thorax. Almost, since she didn't play with little dollies or stand up for friendship. But she did have trouble following the changeling ways sometimes. As for now, she couldn't blame her, since it was all Starlight Glimmer's fault that her hive was friendlier. Her, of course, and Thorax.

Chrysalis rushed back to her lair and went into the planning room, dropping her papers on the ground. She looked back at the dragon, unmoving, but arms crossed. She then saw him flinch, but just a tiny bit. If she wasn't paying attention, she would've missed it entirely. She almost groaned, knowing that her potion didn't work, but then knew that she would be given away.

She thought of her battle with Princess Twilight's friends earlier, wondering if something had happened to trigger a failure in the potion.

Chrysalis came back to the castle, after she'd just finished transferring Starlight's cocoon, now ready for the hard part: waiting. Luckily, Twilight and her friends were approaching just as she had finished sneaking in. The best part was that Twilight had no locks on her doors, no security, meaning her castle was open to all intruders, big and small. Including Chrysalis.

Through the crack in the door, she could faintly hear the chatter of Starlight's friends. "Alright girls," came Twilight's voice. "I already checked all of my portions of Ponyville. What about you?" The others cross-talked, but it was enough to confirm that they had finished covering their grounds, as well. Chrysalis grinned, as she predicted they were going to walk into the castle any moment now, allowing her the chance to defeat, or at least weaken, them.

As if on cue, the doors to the Castle of Friendship opened, and Chrysalis attacked right as she was spotted, aiming for the most powerful in the group - you guessed it, Twilight. She shrieked as Chrysalis knocked her down, and soon, her body went limp. She smiled as the other's faces showed fear, anger, basically anything negative.

Chrysalis dodged a buck from Applejack, almost being driven into a blow by Rainbow. Luckily, she managed to swerve just in time to avoid the hit. Unfortunately, the two had collided with each other, and they were now in as bad a state as Twilight was. She looked around at the three remaining ponies with an intimidating face, not that she would need to.

One of them, Fluttershy, she thought, was stunned into silence and barely even made a move to stop her. She threw her into a pile with the others, thinking it was too easy. A cannon shot out confetti at her, which she coughed out, throwing the last two, who barely threatened her at all. She turned around, seeing a dragon breathing fire at her.

Now, he was a threat. Though he didn't make much of a difference. She fought him for a good few minutes, before giving in and deciding to use the potion she'd brought along. Spike's arms unfolded when he saw it, and he looked as if he was going to back away for a moment, but then, he decided to thrust himself towards Chrysalis, who just shook her head.

"Foolish move, little dragon," she said aloud, before placing the potion bottle in his mouth, and forcing him to drink it. He kept his eyes open for a few minutes, and then dropped down with his friends. She smirked and compelled the others to do the same. Then, she picked them all up, getting ready to bring them to her lair so that she could lock them up. The best part was, they would all be in the same place, with Starlight, without even knowing it.

Chrysalis grinned one last time before finally taking them away.