Queen Chrysalis was frozen in stone at the end of the series... She remained there for many months until she discovered that the right mindset is really the trick to escaping... She managed to unfreeze herself early one summer morning before the sun rose and then, she escaped to the nearby Everfree Forest, where she stayed and waited...

She often went to town while disguised as a pony. She created an earth mare named Crystal Heart, a brown maned mare with a shimmering aquamarine coat and a diamond-shaped crystal superimposed over a pink heart for a cutie mark... She often went to town for supplies and to learn about her enemy, Starlight Glimmer... She learned Starlight had recently broke up with Trixie and was very depressed. Now seemed like the perfect opportunity to make her pay! Chrysalis would pretend to be a pony, get Starlight to fall in love with her, and then betray her and break her heart to completely destroy her! The plan seemed so perfect! There was just one problem...